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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and I'm back.

After a week or longer than a week in Alaska for a vacation and then we had a remote

dispatch offsite retreat for the first time in dispatch history at an undisclosed location.

And now we're back in the saddle in the regular course of business and we have got a lot to talk

about today. Three big cases, the university refused or denied review at this stage in a case involving

Ishiiva University that we have talked about in the past. The fifth circuit upheld Texas's social

media law and Sarah, that's particularly relevant to you because...

As the pod represents the trade organization for the social media companies.

Yes, yes indeed. And then the district court, a district court judge in Florida has asked for

a special or ordered, a special master to review documents retrieved from the Mar-a-Lago search

and we'll bring you up to date on all of that. But before we start, that's the order we're going

to go. We're going to go Ishiiva, fifth circuit and then district court. But I want to

to, Sarah, read two quotes and this will be the interesting theme here today. Here is quote number one

from the fifth circuit. We reject platforms efforts to reframe their censorship as speech.

It is undisputed that the platforms want to eliminate speech, not promote or protect it and

no amount of doctrinal gymnastics can turn the First Amendment's protection for free speech

into protections for free censoring. Fifth circuit. Supreme Court. Unless a stay is granted, Ishiiva

will be required to recognize the alliance, a LGBTQ group. Ishiiva will be required to recognize

the alliance as an official student group and to grant it all the privileges extended to other

such groups. As the alliance has contended, this would force Ishiiva to make a quote statement in

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