Seconds into oral argument over the breadth of California's sexual harassment law, Circuit Judge Mary H. Murguia interrupted actress Ashley Judd's lawyer and cut to the key issue: Is the statute self-limiting in a way that let Harvey Weinstein off the hook?
Murguia's quick, incisive query from the bench last year showed a judge fully in command of her virtual courtroom -- a quality bound to be useful as she launches a seven-year... (continued)