Law

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors upheld a program that would allow county sheriff's employees to interview suspected undocumented inmates and pass their findings onto federal immigration officials. The county may save millions with the deportation of undocumented inmates.

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Kai Ryssdal talks to Ohio State Secretary Jennifer Brunner about Ohio's investigation into how foreclosure proceedings are processed.

Kai Ryssdal talks to Slate's Supreme Court correspondent Dahlia Lithwick about the business-related cases for the U.S. Supreme Court will be considering this fall.

The Supreme Court is opening its new session. On the docket: several cases that touch on technology. We talk with legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen about cases involving video games, privacy, and whether AT&T counts as a person in our conversation. Also in this show, the Senate wants commercials to be quieter. What might that sound like?

In a bill that makes total sense yet for some reason took decades to even come to a vote, the Senate passed a bill that will require television...

This according to a new study. Because if you're stupid enough to text while driving, are you really going to follow laws? I didn't think so....

A convicted sex offender who is appealing his conviction objected to the word "rape" coming up in a search of his name. The French court said he's...

A district court judge in Manhattan ordered a condo developer to return the deposit of a buyer. Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson looks into the potential impact of this ruling.