Florida International University suspended two students for two years and banned them from campus and university events after racist, sexist and antisemitic rhetoric was exposed in a WhatsApp group chat dubbed “Nazi Heaven.” The Miami Herald reported the underlying messages included violent discussions targeting Black students, alongside extensive slurs and harassment. FIU previously charged the chat’s creator, a third-year law student, with an “affirmative act” facilitating student-conduct violations and suspended him, and separately suspended a co-leader for making verbal and written threats and for additional misconduct unrelated to the group chat. The suspensions now cap the affected students’ re-entry until May 2028, pending appeals. The students sued FIU’s president, arguing punishment violates free-speech rights; a district judge dismissed the free-speech complaint while the campus process was still pending. The appeals now proceed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, with the case likely to shape how universities apply campus conduct codes to privately shared speech.