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Your Legal Rights

Bay Area attorney Jeff Hayden talks with experts on various legal topics, with listener participation: (415) 841-4134.

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59:30

Upcoming Election, Strategies for 2026 and Beyond

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/10/30

YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by civil rights activist and election specialist Brent Turner, and tonight's special guest, attorney, author, and advocate Christine Pelosi.Ms. Pelosi has been a voice for women's rights, grassroots politics, electing Democrats & defending our Democracy.Brent Turner is a civil rights activist and election specialist.Tonight's broadcast will begin with a chat about Proposition 50; from there, we go wherever our listeners take us.Please take your questions to us at

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58:17

Reshaping the Justice Department for revenge and profit

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/10/23

The President has reshaped the Justice Department, firing veteran lawyers, instilling his private lawyers into management positions — but is using for revenge on his political adversaries? Tonight, YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by Richard Zitrin, an emeritus professor of legal ethics at UC College of the Law San Francisco, author of books, articles and op-ed articles on the reshaping of the justice system.

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58:17

Reshaping the Justice Department for revenge and profit

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/10/23

The President has reshaped the Justice Department, firing veteran lawyers, instilling his private lawyers into management positions — but is using for revenge on his political adversaries? Tonight, YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by Richard Zitrin, an emeritus professor of legal ethics at UC College of the Law San Francisco, author of books, articles and op-ed articles on the reshaping of the justice system.

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59:46

Intelligent Justice

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/10/02

Is it time to reinvent the system by which we resolve disputes?Intelligent Justice is an organization dedicated to the advancement of Comprehensive Adjudication. In the traditional model, each side brings their lawyers, who hire the necessary experts and other professionals, and each (usually two parties, sometimes many parties) presents their respective case to the finder of fact. Comprehensive Adjudication utilizes recognized legal experts, preapproved by all parties, to thoroughly identify and

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59:22

Medical Malpractice, The Basics -- But, Why Can't I...

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/09/25

What should you do if your loved one suffers an injury at the hands of a medical professional. In a personal injury case, it’s all about who is at fault. There are many more factors at play in the complex arena of medical malpractice.Tonight, YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by nationally recognized trial lawyer James Bostwick, who, amongst other accolades, obtained the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in U.S. history.Questions for Jeff and his guest? Please call, toll free, at (866)

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59:45

Post Conviction Relief for the Noncitizen

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/09/04

Are deportations limited to the undocumented? To serious criminals? Just where are we now, and why should we care?YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by Carla Gomez, Staff Attorney for the Private Defender Program of the San Mateo County Bar Association, and Redwood City Attorney John Halley, to discuss who can get relief and why we should care.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call us, toll free at (866) 798-8255.

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59:23

E. Jean Carroll & Roberta Kaplan: Not My Type

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/08/21

The man who is perhaps the most litigious person in the country seeks to return to his position as the world’s most powerful person. And you share a history. You find yourself going into a fierce, and bloody, courtroom battle.YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, have two distinguished guests. E. Jean Carroll is the author of seven books. Her most recent one is called "Not My Type." it's about a brutal sexual assault upon her in the dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman

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59:28

Voting and Redistricting

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/08/14

Your Legal Rights starts with Democracy, and we've presented broadcasts on such subjects as preserving democracy, threats to our democracy and how votes are counted. Tonight features a topic of gerrymandering — moving district lines to alter the outcome of an election by predetermining the districts in which you cast your vote. Is it wrong for the party in power in a state to draw district lines to dilute the number of representatives the other party sends to the state capital? To Washington?When

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59:40

Landlord-Tenant Summer 2025

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/08/07

What changes are taking place in Landlord-Tenant Laws? Changes in Unlawful Detainers? What of the back rent? Are evictions back in vogue? What protections are now in place?Questions for Jeff and his guests — and we've got three of the BEST — call (866) 798-8255.

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59:29

Planning and Probating Your Estate, Small or Large

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/07/31

Is Probate and Estate Planning really about your property, or people?YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by San Francisco Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Attorney John O’Grady.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call us, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.

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58:58

Privacy in the Digital Age

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/07/24

YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by Sophia Cope and Tori Noble, attorneys with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. For the past 35 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been defending digital privacy, free speech, creativity and innovation, transparency and security -- long before most of us saw the link between technological innovation and the erosion of many of our liberties, imagining what the future could look like when we get things

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59:13

Elections: What's Going Wrong

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/07/17

In this age of tribalism, there is little uniting folks these days. Interestingly, one thing on which each side can agree, is a deep distrust of elections, especially at the national level.Is it the way the elections are conducted? Who gets to vote?When one side wins, it seems the other side is unconvinced. While power switches back and forth — something our founding fathers might've thought healthy for a thriving democracy — it seems the party losing power is increasingly willing to challenge the

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59:13

Elections: What's Going Wrong

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/07/17

In this age of tribalism, there is little uniting folks these days. Interestingly, one thing on which each side can agree, is a deep distrust of elections, especially at the national level.Is it the way the elections are conducted? Who gets to vote?When one side wins, it seems the other side is unconvinced. While power switches back and forth — something our founding fathers might've thought healthy for a thriving democracy — it seems the party losing power is increasingly willing to challenge the

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59:13

Elections: What's Going Wrong

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/07/17

In this age of tribalism, there is little uniting folks these days. Interestingly, one thing on which each side can agree, is a deep distrust of elections, especially at the national level.Is it the way the elections are conducted? Who gets to vote?When one side wins, it seems the other side is unconvinced. While power switches back and forth — something our founding fathers might've thought healthy for a thriving democracy — it seems the party losing power is increasingly willing to challenge the

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58:54

Elder Abuse

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/07/10

Elder abuse arises in various forms from various sources.Some practices are obvious such as physical abuse or neglect, or falsifying financial records or forging signatures; others more subtle such as selling a senior on a poor investment with huge commissions or selling unneeded repairs to their home.Tonight’s broadcast is devoted to protecting seniors, from a whole litany of scams and predatory practices.YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by Karman Guadagni,

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58:59

The United States Supreme Court: What Just Happened?...

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/07/03

Two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, threw out New York’s Concealed Weapon Law – a law much like California’s – as violative of the Second Amendment, and threw out former President Biden’s student debt relief program.We asked our experts: what’s next?Last year, the court granted presidential immunities once-thought unthinkable, held that the first amendment prohibits the Colorado Public-Accommodation Law from forcing a website designer to design a website for a same-sex wedding,

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59:31

Your Traffic Stop, The Department of Motor Vehicles,...

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/06/26

Tonight, on Your Legal Rights: we’re revisiting traffic court and the Department Of Motor Vehicles, and issues that might deprive you of your right to due process. YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by David Uthman, from the San Francisco Traffic Clinic and the Law Offices of David Uthman in San Francisco.Questions for Jeff’s guest? Call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.

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59:54

Does the phrase "Democratic Republic" still apply to...

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/06/19

YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is working tonight with panel of hosts who will discuss elections, current events, and the relationship between California and the federal government. Former California State Controller, Betty Yee, well-versed on Government Accountability and an expert on the budget, will join us to discuss some of the legal issues relating to budget and finance such as constraints with borrowing to balance the budget and CA withholding payroll taxes from the federal government, and comment on

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59:12

Immigration Nightmare: Part Two

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/06/12

Just over a year ago, we dared ask such questions as "What is it going to take before Congress will take up fair and just immigration reform." Since that time, the situation has worsened. In the two weeks since Part I of this series aired, the paradigm has shifted, and not for better.It was foreseeable that political leaders would use immigration as the wedge issue to divide the people of this country; however, federalizing the National Guard and sending in the military perhaps less so. Tonight, we

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59:09

Bankruptcy, Your Rights and the Two-Minute Debtors...

Your Legal Rights ·

2025/06/05

You owe some money; but, do you have rights? YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, joined by Leon Bayer, are talking about bankruptcy, debtors rights, and what this means for you. Questions for Jeff and his guest? Call us at (415) 841-4134.

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