Welcome to Detours and Frolics. We have some decent news on relatively grim topics this week (aside from the Arizona thing, which is this week’s outlier):
- The Supreme Court ruled that the ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders applies retroactively (The Atlantic)
- Arizona wants out of the Ninth Circuit (Office of the Arizona Governor)
- After last week’s note on Texas, Hawaii has joined the group of states that has determined that daily fantasy sports are illegal under state law (Deadspin)
- The founder of Bikram yoga, Bikram Chowdhury, must pay over $900,000 to a former employee over claims of sexual harassment and wrongful termination (LA Times)
- The “affluenza teen” is back from Mexico and residing in a juvenile detention facility for the time being (NPR)