Professors and a student challenged the higher-education provisions of Florida’s Individual Freedom Act (the Stop W.O.K.E. Act), which barred professors from endorsing concepts tied to critical race theory in classroom instruction. A divided Eleventh Circuit panel held that the restrictions amounted to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in the university classroom, rejecting the argument that public-employee-speech or government-speech doctrine let the state dictate what professors may say about race and sex in their own teaching. The court affirmed the district court’s preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of those provisions.