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We open with Steve Gregory. I remember this lawsuit being filed a while back. It's families versus Snap.

The parent company is Snapchat. Right.

Right.

Yeah.

And one of the families is in Orange County, the Neville family.

Their son, Alexander, was 14, died of fentanyl poisoning back in 2020, bought a pill on Snapchat,

thought it was Xanax.

He was anxious.

And it was fentanyl in it. And there's a number of teenagers who died from fentanyl being sold over Snap or Snapchat.

And we're going to have the mother on tomorrow, Amy Neville, because there's a new movie coming out. It's a mini documentary

called Come Back Home. There's a private screening tomorrow in San Juan Capistrano, and then it

streams online starting on Friday, and we'll be talking with her tomorrow. But Steve Gregory

knows about how the case has progressed and where it is right now,

Steve.

Well, a judge just, I mean, literally hours ago just ruled that the lawsuit filed by relatives of

over 60 young people who died, that the lawsuit can move forward.

And Snap, as you mentioned, the parent company of Snapchat, Snap had argued that it was

immune from civil lawsuits under the federal code section 230. It's a lot like qualified immunity

for law enforcement, if you will. And they felt like they were immune from any kind of a civil

lawsuit. Yeah, well, they do have special protection often.

Right. Because these social media companies say that they're not responsible for how their customers use their service.

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