Three years ago, a court of appeal overturned a plaintiff's verdict in a $13 million sex discrimination case because, among other things, Los Angeles County Judge Michael P. Linfield gave jurors a long recitation of the history of the civil rights struggle in the United States.
He then told the jurors they were "going to become" Dr. Martin Luther King. "It's going to be your job to help bend that arc toward justice...... (continued)