In the current issue of the ABA Journal Magazine, Philadelphia lawyer Andy Gowa suggests that the justices on the Supreme Court of the United States make better use of their robes by coordinating their color with the subject matter of the issues before the court. He suggests for example "burnt umber to project warmth in child rights and family law matters and dark charcoals and blacks to project sobriety and seriousness in death penalty cases."
As I noted here, our colleagues in England and Wales are moving in the opposite direction. Nevertheless, I would welcome other suggestions from readers of this blog - perhaps IBM blue or ExxonMobil red in antitrust cases, lime or chartreuse in environmental cases or pink, purple or heliotrope for those civil union or same sex marriage cases.
Of course, if this catches on, John Roberts and the Supremes will go through as many wardrobe changes in the course of a day as Diana Ross and her Supremes did.
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How about imperial purple for cases from the ninth circuit? So maybe the circuit judges will realize there is in fact a court above them whose precedent they need to abide by.
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