Show threadNonilexMar 27, 2024

The #settlement declares that actions taken by the fmr Reedy Creek special taxing district (#RCID) days before it was taken over by #DeSantis appointees would be “null & void.” That included a long-lasting development agreement that would have greatly limited what the new board could do.

#Florida #DontSayGay #law #Gestapo #CultureWars #Racism #Heterosexism #MaleSupremacy #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ+

Show threadNonilexMar 27, 2024

The #legislation prohibits instruction on matters related to #gender #identity & #SexualOrientation in #PublicSchool.

#DeSantis fired back by pushing for legislation dismantling the #ReedyCreekTax district (aka #RCID aka #CFTOD), which for decades has managed the 25k acres that encompass Walt #Disney World in central #Florida. Opponents of the governor saw it as a retaliatory #power grab.

#law #CultureWars #Racism #Heterosexism #MaleSupremacy #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ+

(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈Sep 3, 2023

I really think we're missing the boat as to an obvious place for these #SafePlace decals...

On #Uber vehicles! Just think...you're an Uber driver at a stoplight and someone is in trouble. They see your decal, wave you down, and you take them to safety!

I really think #RCID, #Orlando, #Osceola county, etc, needs think about this! I'd put it on my rear window!

@TonyStark @iainjclark @lisamelton
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Attached: 1 image Take a minute to process this: the same people who want business owners to have the right to refuse to bake cakes for gay people want business owners to NOT be allowed to display gay pride flags in their own store fronts, so the argument that it was about the personal rights of small business owners is clearly bullshit, which we all knew. GOP lawmakers take aim at LGBTQ+ ‘safe places’ program in small Florida town | https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/gop-lawmakers-take-aim-at-lgbtq-safe-places-program-in-small-florida-town/

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Memecosystem ServicesJun 19, 2023

I wrote last week for #Digestable about the Reedy Creek Improvement District at the center of Disney and DeSantis's tiff and how frustrating it is to have them portrayed as heroes and a villains when neither party actually cares about what they say they care about. IT'S FUN! HAPPY PRIDE!

https://digestable.substack.com/p/june-7th-35d

#newsletter #florida #disney #RCID #DeSantis #DontSayGay

June 7th

sunsetting the LARPing hotel and other failures

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Show threadRichard PennerJun 15, 2023

Update for:
2023-CA-011818-O : Central Florida Tourism Oversight District vs. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc, (9th Circuit/Orange County) Records can be accessed at:
https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/Cases/Search?caseType=CV&caseTypeDesc=Civil%20Case%20Records

There is now an official Notice of Hearing, but no response yet, on #Disney's motion to dismiss the #CFTOD lawsuit seeking to void the #RCID contracts which the #Florida legislature already attempted to void in violation of the Contracts Clause of the US Constitution at the prompting of Governor #DeSantis.

Attorneys and parties are instructed to appear in person at the Orange County Courthouse,
Courtroom 19-B, 425 N. Orange Ave. Orlando, Florida, 32801 on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 2:00 P.M. EDT.

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Show threadRichard PennerMay 26, 2023

@rrogers I think you mean "as a witness" as the defendants are #DeSantis and other #Florida officials in their official capacities. The lawsuit seeks to undo the voiding of the contracts laying out #Disney's further development plans and to void the replacement of the landowner-elected #RCID by the Governor-appointed #CFTOD.

There is, I believe, a steep divide between Disney front-of-house employees (Cast Members) and executive management, so I can't think of how a Cast Member portraying Mickey Mouse would be in any way helpful in addressing the merits of the claims for relief which are rooted in interpretation of the US Constitution.

The biggest potential sideshow which I think might be legally relevant is deposition testimony of how DeSantis apparently was once married at Disneyworld and has now gone to war with it. Is this the work of another Floridian Very Stable Genius™? Was there ever a plan?

Richard PennerMay 26, 2023

Update in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. v. DeSantis, 4:23-cv-00163, (N.D. Fla.)
Free copy of docket here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67271062/walt-disney-parks-and-resorts-us-inc-v-desantis/

On Thursday, #Disney argued against the motion by #DeSantis, #FLDEO, and #CFTOD that seeks to disqualify Chief Judge Walker from hearing the case over contracts executed by #RCID (Doc 43).

In the main, Disney argues that DeSantis and co. are making a mountain out of a molehill and that the law doesn't endorse such a “hair-trigger disqualification standard.”

Disney points to the cartoonish demonstration of bias in the cases cited by the Defendants and argues there is no parallel:

❝Defendants instead base their motion on two year-old hypothetical questions during prior judicial proceedings where the Court accurately referred to widely-publicized statements from Florida legislators about their intent to change the governing structure of the Reedy Creek Improvement District (“RCID”) specifically because Disney expressed a political viewpoint disfavored by the legislators. The Court did not make any findings about those statements, but simply invoked them during oral arguments as examples to test arguments being advanced by counsel addressing different issues under different factual records.

Also, “the Court recently ruled in favor of the relevant State defendants in the very cases cited by defendants here as evidence of potential bias against them. Far from proving bias, the cases confirm the Court’s impartiality. The motion to disqualify should be denied.”

Disney goes on to show more context for the innocuous use by Judge Walker of news reports about the DeSantis-Disney feud, because contextomy is the tool of the scoundrel.

WALT DISNEY PARKS AND RESORTS US INC v. DESANTIS, 4:23-cv-00163 - CourtListener.com

Docket for WALT DISNEY PARKS AND RESORTS US INC v. DESANTIS, 4:23-cv-00163 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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Wonkette Headline BotMay 19, 2023

Disney Turns Its Billion Dollar Florida Investment Back Into This Pumpkin https://www.wonkette.com/disney-turns-its-billion-dollar-florida-investment-back-into-this-pumpkin

#Walt_disney_world #Ron_desantis #Rule_against_perpetuities #Mickey_mouse #Bob_chapek #Bob_iger #Don't_say_gay_bill #Reedy_creek_improvement_district #Rcid #Central_florida_tourism_oversight_board #Central_florida_tourism_oversight_district #Cftod #Legal

Disney Turns Its Billion Dollar Florida Investment Back Into This Pumpkin

Bibbidy bobbidy BOO.

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Show threadRichard PennerMay 17, 2023

2023-CA-011818-O : Central Florida Tourism Oversight District vs. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc, (9th Circuit/Orange County) Records can be accessed at:
https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/Cases/Search?caseType=CV&caseTypeDesc=Civil%20Case%20Records

Tuesday, #Disney lawyers filed a 27-page motion to dismiss in the #CFTOD state lawsuit entitled: "Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint
as Moot or, in the Alternative, to Stay this Action."

Moot? Moot? What possible action could have happened to #DeSantis' retaliation campaign that Disney lawyers would say the CFTOD complaint seeking to void the #RCID contracts was moot? Oh yeah. As documented in Disney's amended complaint in its federal lawsuit, the #Florida legislature passed a law that purported to void the same contracts that the CFTOD was suing over. Using some sort of, I don't know how you'ld describe it, concept of supremacy, the state law would render the actions of the new CFTOD without effect and there goes the basis for the lawsuit from DeSantis' hand-picked panel.

Gifted link to NY Times story: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/business/media/disney-world-ron-desantis-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=u8Ju9DjsoOXlQe-Yurc7R34CaNGx0cBX2xnAm4oqxK--3VbMUd4wXGOn21dRhm_G6YS3LrpBwQmv3KPYekW0Y-7zbEF5tG03xkfPLBxoKgBlzxFru_RtyaZqrO5xvubFOzbkhTxA2uqrXQiKAvtrIR5hnktMgZQOZ5OKfkqu3BkVfH1K9nVB4-NrhwAqJxvGK_jBFd074VmBaByFUOurPwxFar4jK8xX_p146h0Q6dD5M_DatqrWy2X8tpfaWsPIljTtIWwxr1pdAmv0RKlNtUrVWmuqxLFDHY7Ts5vKzhNSGsdkZ077GFIUcejP9nJMLnnCGFxjo6tkfwCJNQtmDSGXID92yILhxlgKWWO-YsGU6g&smid=url-share

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Richard PennerMay 16, 2023

2023-CA-011818-O : Central Florida Tourism Oversight District vs. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc, (9th Circuit/Orange County) Records can be accessed at:
https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/Cases/Search?caseType=CV&caseTypeDesc=Civil%20Case%20Records

Today, #Disney lawyers (the same local firm as in their federal case) appeared for the first time in the #CFTOD state lawsuit attempting to void the contracts with #RCID. Possibly this means an answer, motion to dismiss, removal to federal court, or other filing is going to appeal in the next 3 weeks. (I expect removal and I expect it much earlier.) No idea if this appearance is subsequent to the service of the complaint on Disney.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. v. #DeSantis (4:23-cv-00163) District Court, N.D. Florida
Free copy of docket here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67271062/walt-disney-parks-and-resorts-us-inc-v-desantis/

The court in Disney's federal lawsuit against CFTOD, DeSantis, and #FLDEO is meanwhile dealing with the type of pro se "intervenor" who really just wants to be heard on an unrelated issue. Famous lawsuits and parties (I'm looking at you, Mr. Trump) tend to attract these.

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