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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and normally

on August what we do is a Tuesday nerd guest followed by a Thursday law podcast. But we're flipping

it around this week. We're going to start this week with the legal podcast because a lot of stuff

has happened over the last several days and unusually busy legal August so far. So we're going to

cover three big topics today. One, we're going to talk about the Alex Jones case. The surprise

revelation that the plaintiffs had obtained the information on Alex Jones's phone,

apparently without Alex Jones's knowledge and consent, which is a wild issue not just from

the standpoint of drama in the courtroom. It's kind of a wild legal issue. We're going to talk

about the verdict against Alex Jones punitive damages. There's a lot of layers there. Then we're

going to talk about the Breonna Taylor indictments. There are federal civil rights indictments that

have been filed in the Breonna Taylor case. And we need to talk about those because and by and

large they do not relate to the actual shooting itself with one exception that we'll discuss.

But that is a major development in the case. And then the last thing is we're going to talk about

shouting or is it falsely shouting, fire, and a crowded theater except doing it at what on social media.

So it's going to be a fun podcast. Sarah, let's start with Alex Jones. Let's kind of give people

a peek behind the curtain because there is this small nuclear detonation last week. When there was

a lot of reporters recovering the trial live, the trial is being broadcast. And then all of a sudden

the lawyers for the plaintiffs, the family that was defamed by Alex Jones, by they were accused

that Sandy Hook was a hoax and that they were crisis actors, reveals that he has obtained

Alex Jones's text messages and emails. It reveals it while Jones is on the stand, much to Jones

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