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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isker and we're going

to be popping around to a lot of different topics today. We're going to briefly hit a few things.

First, we're going to talk about an indictment in Loudon County, Virginia, which is highly relevant

because we briefly talked about Loudon County just last podcast. We're going to talk about another

student loan cert grant, a imposition of sanctions on Trumpist attorneys, and then we're going to

have a kind of a longer talk about social media and sex trafficking law, super pleasant topic,

but very important one. But yeah, let's start off with Loudon County, Virginia. So Sarah,

last podcast, if listeners recall, we talked about how a grand jury had been convened and had

discovered that Loudon County had mishandled two sexual assault cases. And we talked about that

in the context of Loudon County schools. We talked about that in the context of litigation

at school, litigation involving public schools. And then right after we finished the podcast,

or maybe an hour or so after we finished the podcast, this little news item came across the

airwaves. Loudon County public schools, former superintendent Scott Ziegler and public information

officer Wade Bjard were indicted by a special grand jury amid an eight-month investigation

into the district's mishandling of two sexual assault cases. Ziegler was charged with one

count of false publication, one count of prohibited conduct. That's an interesting name for us

for criminal law, prohibited conduct. And one count of penalizing an employee for a court appearance.

The indictments were issued earlier this summer. And Bjard was charged with a count of felony

perjury. So yeah, what's interesting to me about that again, to remind listeners, we had on

a Loudon County parent several months ago to talk about some of the challenges and problems in

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