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I was born ready.

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and I would be remiss if I did not recognize the national holiday today.

Sarah, happy Leroy Jenkins Day.

For those who are unfamiliar with this hallowed day, May 11th, 15 years ago today on May 11th, the greatest comedy skit in the history of massively multiplayer online role-playing gaming occurred with the famous Leroy Jenkins skit.

I won't break it all down for you. If you don't know what it is, you're hopelessly uncool. But anyway, how are you marking this day, Sarah?

I'm more of a all your bases are belong to us.

Now that is a deep pull right there. That's...

Thank you. Thank you David. I didn't even know we were doing this bit and so I'm extra impressed with myself for being able to pull that while you were talking.

You should be. You should be.

Well, you know, I know it'll come as a great disappointment to listeners, but we're actually not going to focus on Leroy Jenkins today.

We do have just too much going on in the world of law to spend any time in the world of video gaming and that's always a tragedy.

We're just fresh off the Arleadia Guadalupe oral arguments of the Supreme Court, which refers to a discussion slash debate that Sarah and I had in a previous podcast.

We're also going to talk about Betsy DeVos's title nine reforms.

We're going to talk about new developments in the Amad Arbree case and some of the really nasty bizarre rhetoric that's grown up around that.

We're also going to talk about Michael Flynn and we're going to, if we have time, talk a little bit about the bridge gate case and we're going to wind up the whole thing with by correcting a serious omission and our comedy sitcom rankings for which we, we from the bottom of our hearts apologize to our readers.

So Sarah, do you want to start us off with Guadalupe remind listeners what the case is about and what are your thoughts about the oral argument?

I mean an exciting Monday in our second week of the May oral argument calendar kicked off with the Oklahoma case, which is lovingly referred to in conservative world as does half of Oklahoma still belong to Oklahoma.

But we'll skip right over that and Guadalupe was the second case argued today.

This is on the ministerial exception. Basically can private religious schools fire teachers, but claim that that can't be reviewed under current employment law, etc.

Because they are ministers of the faith and therefore sort of excluded from a bunch of these employment related laws at three different advocates today, one from the Beckett fund who argued that sort of a broad ministerial exception, one from the solicitor general's office, which gets time in these cases from time to time.

And then the attorney for the two teachers who were the plaintiffs in this case, one had argued that she was fired for her age and the other had argued she was fired for seeking cancer treatment.

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