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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcasts, this is David French with Sarah Isger

and this is going to be a good podcast. We've got a lot that we're going to cover.

We're going to start with a, well, wow, we're going to start with a puzzler, a puzzler in the Sarah Palin case.

I have to also start with a mea culpa in the parent, in the Palin case, in that I was wrong about the outcome.

Sarah was right, but then there's this huge asterisk that we're going to talk about.

So we're going to talk about the Palin verdict, kind of verdict, not going to be a verdict.

We're going to talk about that. We're also going to talk more about the Durham matter, the John Durham matter,

and some very illuminating commentary and explanation that has occurred since then.

We're going to talk about the Florida laws that are called the Don't Say Gay laws that have been burning up controversy online for this is a state law in Florida.

That is going to restrict the way in which or whether people can talk about LGBT issues or sexuality in the classroom, public school classrooms.

We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about an 11th Circuit Qualified Immunity case that is disturbing.

And then, I mean, in the peak of it all, I mean, in the peak of it all, would you say it's going to be our discussion at the very end that we're going to say for the very end about rule 22.4 in the spring court.

Yeah, I mean, everyone already knows rule 22.4, but I just figured we'd rehash some old ground.

I mean, obviously, right? 22.4, like you have that tattoo of it, I think.

I do indeed. Let's start with the Palin case.

Okay. Before we dive into what actually occurred here, I feel like Sarah, what we need to do is talk about what normally happens.

Here's what I want to do. I want to set the stage for what normally happens procedurally in a trial.

And then you just go with what actually happened and everything that's happened set.

So here's what normally happens and trial lawyers, litigators in who are listening will know this.

But there's sort of a rhythm to wet the way that that trials go.

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