Justice for All - The Wyatt Wright Show

Justice for All - The Wyatt Wright Show episodes:

• 09.01.2013

  Blocking the Courthouse Door

  Wyatt interviews journalist and author Stephanie Mencimer about her book, Blocking the Courthouse Door. As a reporter for Mother Jones, Ms. Mencimer covers legal affairs and domestic policy in the magazine’s Washington, D.C. bureau. This former investigative reporter has earned...

  
• 08.11.2013

  Voting Rights Act — Past, Present and Future

  Wyatt interviews attorney Jose Garza, legal counsel for the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus, about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down portions of the Voting Rights Act. Mr. Garza’s history of public interest service places him a...

  
• 06.23.2013

  Freedom to Harm — Attacks on Regulations that Protect Us

  Wyatt interviews professor and author Thomas McGarity about his new book, Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival. Professor McGarity has served as advisor to numerous federal and state agencies and knows why they are...

  
• 06.16.2013

  Secrecy for Dangerous Products - Yes, In America

  Public Citizen joins Wyatt to discuss an absurd and dangerous federal court case that hides a product complaint from the public. Court secrecy doesn’t sound right in America, but one manufacturer got a court to seal its suit against...

  
• 05.19.2013

  Hot Coffee—Is Justice Being Served?

  Wyatt interviews nationally known documentarian Susan Saladoff. You remember Susan—she is the producer and director of the HBO hit documentary entitled HOT COFFEE--IS JUSTICE BEING SERVED which Entertainment Weekly called a MUST WATCH show. Ms. Saladoff is a former...

  
• 05.12.2013

  Privacy and Unreasonable Searches—Rights Under Siege

  Wyatt interviews renowned criminal defense attorney Gerry Goldstein and gets his thoughts on government searches into our daily lives. What you don't know may shock you. The Fourth Amendment may not be the shield to governmental intrusions that...

  
• 03.24.2013

  Are Clean Elections a Thing of the Past

  Corporate interests take center stage by influencing our elections for judicial office. Should big money be allowed in elections where the very arbiters of fair and balanced justice reside? Find out what happens with this recipe for disaster...

  
• 02.24.2013

  The British Are Coming or the Texas Legislature is Back in Session

  So the Texas Legislature is back at conjuring up new ways to disenfranchise the people—that’s you and me. Find out what is really going on at the Capitol as Wyatt interviews an expert on just that topic.

  
• 09.30.2012

  Barriers to the Voting Booth — A Retreat on Progress Made

  Voting is getting tougher in America. Voter ID laws and other laws based upon the fabricated premise of massive voter fraud have disenfranchised millions from their vote. Join Wyatt as he welcomes the President of the League of Women Voters...

  
• 09.23.2012

  Texas Supreme Court Harms Citizens

  The Texas Supreme Court has become a de facto special interest group serving both mega corporations and the rich and powerful. Along the way, ordinary Texans are hurt and left out in the cold. Such brazenness is now in the...

  
• 09.16.2012

  The Long Term Plan to Steal Political Reality

  America has been deliberately misled by years of calculated reality theft. Join Wyatt and author/professor Dr. Bill Israel as they tackle how reality has been stolen, beginning with the evening news. Even more shocking is how the plan...

  
• 09.09.2012

  Auto Insurance Coverage Slashed by Supreme Court

  Texas Supreme Court says uninsured motorist coverage only applies if you are hit by the entire motor vehicle, not merely a piece of it. The Court threw out the case of a man and his kids who were severely...

  
• 09.02.2012

  Hospital Employees Treated as Second Class

  The Texas Supreme Court has ordered that hospital employees injured on the job do not have the same rights as other employees. Instead, injured hospital employees are now subject to med mal caps and all the limitations of the...

  
• 08.26.2012

  Supreme Court Says Bribes and Destruction of Evidence are Okay In Texas

  According to the Texas Supreme Court it is now okay for a big corporation defendant to pay bribes and destroy evidence to keep an injured young Texan girl from getting justice. This story will leave you crying for the...

  
• 08.19.2012

  Immunity for Big Pharma – Slamming the Door On Injured Texans

  Wyatt and guest examine the Texas Supreme Court’s holding in Centocor v. Hamilton which gives civil immunity to drug companies who lie and commit fraud to sell their drugs in Texas.

  
• 08.12.2012

  Patients Beware – The Role of the Learned Intermediary Doctrine

  Wyatt and guest critically examine a legal doctrine created in the 1940’s which has no place in our world of modern medicine. With patients involved in their own treatment and manufacturers who advertise their prescription drugs on television, the learned...

  
• 07.22.2012

  Insult to Injury - The Big Business of Insurance Denials

  Wyatt visits with book author Ray Bourhis whose critically acclaimed book Insult to Injury—Insurance Fraud and the Big Business of Bad Faith opened the doors to the culture of denial and oppressive practices used by insurance companies against their own...

  
• 05.20.2012

  Unregulated Medical Devices in America - A Danger Exposed

  Wyatt visits with a nationally known public interest advocate as they examine the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Riegel v. Medtronic which gives medical device manufacturers complete immunity from civil lawsuits—even when they knowingly sell dangerous products that can kill.

  
• 04.15.2012

  Is Justice for Sale In Texas?

  Wyatt addresses bias at the Texas Supreme Court stemming from how the justices are elected. Patronage and rulings that are beholden to major campaign donors cast a shadow on the Court’s integrity and the way these justices make it...

  
• 03.04.2012

  Are We Now Responsible for Contracts We Never Signed?

  Wyatt and guest explain an absurd new ruling that holds a person accountable for a contract that she never agreed to or signed. This destruction of fundamental contract law in In Re Weekley Homes was done solely to benefit...

  
• 02.26.2012

  Insurers Escaping Duties in Uninsured Motorist Cases

  Wyatt exposes how Texas insurers are regularly escaping their duties to policyholders in uninsured/underinsured motorist cases. Regular Texans are getting left out in the cold once again due to the ruling in Brainard v. Trinity Universal Insurance Co.

  
• 02.19.2012

  Injured Employees in Further Danger of Abuse

  Wyatt discusses the crippling ruling of the Texas Supreme Court in Port Elevator v. Casados, which strikes a blow to every employee in Texas. No longer does an employee actually have to receive compensation benefits in order for the...

  
• 02.12.2012

  Decade of Disaster at the Texas Supreme Court: 2000-2010

  Wyatt reviews a recent report from non-partisan watchdog group Court Watch, entitled “Thumbs on the Scale—A Retrospective of the Texas Supreme Court 2000-2010.” The report details statistics showing that consumers lose against big business almost 80% of the time at...

  
• 01.22.2012

  Loss of Texas Collateral Source Rule

  Wyatt discusses the Texas Supreme Court’s abandonment of 128 years of Texas law in its ruling in Haygood v. Escabedo which virtually eliminated the time tested legal maxim known as the Collateral Source Rule—an equitable concept practiced nationwide, but no...

  
• 01.08.2012

  Texas' Broken Workers' Compensation System

  Wyatt discusses the devastating ruling of the Texas Supreme Court in Tex Mutual Ins. Co. v. Ruttiger which erased a cause of action and immunized workers’ compensation insurance companies from any threat of being sued by policyholders—even when the insurers...

  
• 11.27.2011

  Generic Drug Pre-Emption – The Danger Worsens

  Wyatt discusses the dangerous ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Pliva v. Mensing which overturned the 8th and 5th circuits’ decisions and held that federal drug regulations applicable to generic drug manufacturers directly conflict with and preempt plaintiffs’ state...

  
• 10.30.2011

  End of corporate campaign limits

  Wyatt discusses the dangerous ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Pliva v. Mensing which overturned the 8th and 5th circuits’ decisions and held that federal drug regulations applicable to generic drug manufacturers directly conflict with and preempt plaintiffs’ state...

  
• 10.23.2011

  Texas Medical Malpractice Reform Gone Wild

  Wyatt discusses Texas’ medical malpractice reform laws which don’t do much in the way of helping competent doctors, but which insulates the bad ones. Caps on lawsuits and the demise of ordinary negligence are discussed.

  
• 10.16.2011

  Coastal Residents Beware — Disaster at the TWIA

  Wyatt discusses the complete elimination of any recourse coastal residents had against the bad faith actions of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. A new law completely immunizes the huge insurer from the danger of lawsuits if they behave badly.

  
• 10.02.2011

  Texas' War on Voting and Redistricting

  Wyatt discusses the increasing dilution and disenfranchisement of population representative voices in politics. Topics covered include Texas’ new Voter ID law and the legislative redistricting/gerrymandering of 2011.