Judging Amy - Season 1 - Eps 17: Drawing the Line
Amy must decide if a brain-injured woman is fit to be a mother; Maxine discovers that a teenaged client is being abused by his therapist; Leisha meets Amy, and faces her ire for piercing Lauren's ears without permission; Vincent and Maxine clash over his journalism career; Amy faces a class of insufferable law students when she's asked to teach a seminar at Yale; Donna takes modeling herself after Amy a bit too far when she begins to show up for work dressed and coiffed exactly like her mentor; it's all bark and no bite when Amy decides to dismiss the case of a drug dealer sniffed out by a four-legged member of the neighborhood watch.
About Judging Amy

Title: Judging Amy
First Air Date: 1999-09-19
Last Air Date: 2005-05-03
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.5/10 (from 77 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 6
Total Episodes: 138
Network: CBS
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
Cast

Amy Brenneman
Amy Gray

Richard T. Jones
Bruce Van Exel

Dan Futterman
Vincent Gray

Jessica Tuck
Gillian Gray

Marcus Giamatti
Peter Gray

Karle Warren
Lauren Cassidy

Jillian Armenante
Donna Kozlowski

Timothy Omundson
Sean Potter

Tyne Daly
Maxine Gray