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 preliminary injunction against Defendant Julie Leftheris in her official capacity as Inspector General of the Board of Governors.

Professor Novoa has demonstrated that her injuries would be substantially redressed by enjoining the remaining Defendants from enforcing the IFA and Regulation 10.005. Enjoining the members of the Board of Governors from enforcing the IFA would remove some chill on Professor Novoa’s speech because USF would no longer be required to discipline any employee that promotes any of the eight concepts. So would enjoining the members of USF’s Board of Trustees from complying with Regulation 10.005(2)(a)’s requirement that they enact and enforce regulations prohibiting promotion of the eight concepts.

This rationale applies with equal force to the Pernell Plaintiffs’ claims against the members of the Board of Governors in their official capacities. However, the Pernell Plaintiffs inexplicably fail to bring official-capacity claims against the members of each university’s Board of Trustees—despite bringing official-capacity claims against the members of the Board of Governors. An injunction against the Boards of Trustees for each Pernell Plaintiffs’ university would not redress their injuries because suits against these entities are likely barred by sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment. See, e.g., ''Univ. of S. Fla. Bd. of Trustees v. CoMentis, Inc.'', 861 F.3d 1234, 1237 (11th Cir. 2017) (finding that USF’s Board of Trustees qualified an “arm or alter ego of the State” for diversity jurisdiction because