In many parts of the United States, the weather outside was frightening this past winter. Weather vocabulary like "polar vortex," "blizzard", "sub-freezing temperatures" and "record-setting snowfalls" were par for the course during the winter of 2013.

The $2.5 million fine and lifetime ban that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver imposed on Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling for his racially insensitive comments were perfectly legal and will be hard to overturn. So reports the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog.

Despite arguments that the measure will drive vulnerable women away from drug addiction treatment, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam has signed legislation providing that, beginning July 1, prosecutors may lodge misdemeanor assault charges against a woman who gives birth to child who has been harmed as a result of her drug use. So reports USA Today.

The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the constitutionality of Michigan’s affirmative action ban (“Prop 2”) has a much wider effect on race and the law than the limited defeat for affirmative action that the mainstream press is portraying it to be. So argues the author of a Gawker article.