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Your Legal Rights
Wednesdays at 7pm

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

Latest Episodes
  • 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.
  • 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 such events as the detention of a United States Senator and a New York City mayoral candidate by immigration officials.Join us may be a very provocative conversation.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call us, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • 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 again ask: Isn't the fight for immigrant and refuge rights a forgotten part of the fight for racial justice?Tonight, YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by USF Professor, Lawyer and activist Bill Hing, author of Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System.Questions for Jeff, David and their guest? Please call (866) 798-8255.
  • 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.
  • 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, it seems the situation has worsened.We asked: "When someone shows up at the border, claiming asylum, does the system give him or her the benefit of the doubt? If not, why not?" Again, is there a change? For the better?Tonight, we again ask: Isn't the fight for immigrant and refuge rights a forgotten part of the fight for racial justice?Tonight, YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, David Bigeleisen, are joined by Professor Bill Hing, author of Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System.Questions for Jeff, David and their guest? Please call (866) 798-8255.
  • There is a growing movement that contends that animals themselves may have legal rights.Tonight, our panel of outstanding guests will help us illuminate our relationship with animals, whether our pets, animals raised for food or those wild animals in our environment.YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by tonight’s co-host, Dean Johnson, and Pets In Need Chief Executive Officer Laura Toller Gardner, Veterinary Specialist in Animal Welfare Dr. Barry Kipperman, and Brent Turner, The Real Activist. Questions for Jeff, Dean and their guests? Please call, toll-free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • There is a growing movement that contends that animals themselves may have legal rights.Tonight, our panel of outstanding guests will help us illuminate our relationship with animals, whether our pets, animals raised for food or those wild animals in our environment.YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by tonight’s co-host, Dean Johnson, and Pets In Need Chief Executive Officer Laura Toller Gardner, Veterinary Specialist in Animal Welfare Dr. Barry Kipperman, and Brent Turner, The Real Activist. Questions for Jeff, Dean and their guests? Please call, toll-free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • You are having problems with your homeowners association?What is a homeowners association – does it only seem they are everywhere?How does a homeowners association come into being.Can you just opt out? Or what if you fully buy into the homeowners association – you fully believe in it, and decide to join the board – just what experience is in store?Do good homeowners associations necessarily make good neighbors?Join YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and his guests Ron Rohde and Paul Lee, to discuss how to get the most out of your Homeowners Association. Questions for Jeff's guests? Call us, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • Join us for our Spring installment of Landlord-Tenant law for 2025.Tonight, YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by two of San Francisco's best: Jessica Chylik and Sal Timpano.Questions for Jeff's guests? Please call (415) 841-4134.
  • Amidst a deteriorating legal and political atmosphere, at this moment in time, we can celebrate the constitution and the rule of law while, at the same time recognizing there may be changes afoot that we should all be watching.Tonight’s broadcast is a call to action.YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by Professor Brian Soucek, Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, Certified Criminal Law Specialist Peter Goldscheider, mediator and trial attorney Jean Hyams, Sonya Mehta, a trial attorney representing individual employees and labor unions, and Cheryl Niro, attorney and mediator who serves on the board of Lawyers Defending American Democracy, an organization focused on the unique responsibility of lawyers to defend the Constitution.Questions for Jeff's guests? Call us, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.