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Disney Files Scathing Memos in Fed Lawsuit Blasting DeSantis' 'Farcical' Excuses for 'Unconstitutional Restructuring' of
Disney has far better lawyers compared to DeathSantis and Florida. This filing is really well done
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Attorneys for the Walt Disney Company have filed a pair of legal memoranda opposing the motions to dismiss the complaint it filed against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and the governor’s appointees to the board overseeing the special taxing district on Disney property, issuing a scathing condemnation of DeSantis’ “farcical” defenses of the scheme he conducted to punish the entertainment company for criticizing legislation he signed.
The two motions to dismiss Disney’s Second Amended Complaint were filed by DeSantis and Meredith Ivey as Acting Secretary of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity; and by the members of the “Central Florida Tourism Oversight District” (CFTOD), the renamed board who were all appointed by the governor.
Disney has responded to each of the motions in detail, thoroughly describing admissions from DeSantis’ own book and public statements about how he planned to target the company after it spoke out in opposition to the Parental Rights in Education bill (dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” bill by many of its critics) after it passed.
Unsurprisingly, Disney argues in these motions that RCID has provided “enormous public benefits” not just for the company, but to the park guests and the people of Florida by transforming the area into a “thriving tourism hub,” but DeSantis’ actions have caused Disney “concrete injuries” and “serious harms” that are “ongoing.”
Those harms include threatening to seize Disney’s land to build a prison or competing theme park, impose additional regulations on Disney’s monorail transportation system that are not imposed on other parks, actually enacting an unneeded (Disney has always maintained its property far above any government-imposed building code) code enforcement system that included fines subject to foreclosure (another way DeSantis’ puppet board could seize Disney’s land), taking away long-established benefits for firefighters at Disney, and moving to defund an $8 million annual budget for police protection on Disney property — yes, DeSantis’ hand-picked CFTOD board literally wants to defund the police.
The two motions to dismiss Disney’s Second Amended Complaint were filed by DeSantis and Meredith Ivey as Acting Secretary of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity; and by the members of the “Central Florida Tourism Oversight District” (CFTOD), the renamed board who were all appointed by the governor.
Disney has responded to each of the motions in detail, thoroughly describing admissions from DeSantis’ own book and public statements about how he planned to target the company after it spoke out in opposition to the Parental Rights in Education bill (dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” bill by many of its critics) after it passed.
Unsurprisingly, Disney argues in these motions that RCID has provided “enormous public benefits” not just for the company, but to the park guests and the people of Florida by transforming the area into a “thriving tourism hub,” but DeSantis’ actions have caused Disney “concrete injuries” and “serious harms” that are “ongoing.”
Those harms include threatening to seize Disney’s land to build a prison or competing theme park, impose additional regulations on Disney’s monorail transportation system that are not imposed on other parks, actually enacting an unneeded (Disney has always maintained its property far above any government-imposed building code) code enforcement system that included fines subject to foreclosure (another way DeSantis’ puppet board could seize Disney’s land), taking away long-established benefits for firefighters at Disney, and moving to defund an $8 million annual budget for police protection on Disney property — yes, DeSantis’ hand-picked CFTOD board literally wants to defund the police.
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