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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+
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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+
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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
https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/111001988731147118 -
@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?
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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.
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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%20RecordsTuesday, #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.
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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%20RecordsToday, #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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Second Claim: Takings Clause
⁋174→191: Expanded
⁋175→192: Citation improved
⁋175-176→193-194: Expanded
Third Claim: Due Process
⁋179→197: Expanded
⁋181-183→199-201: Expanded
Fourth Claim: #1stAmendment (Political speech cannot be retaliated against by the voiding of contracts)
⁋185→204 Subject-verb agreement (Speech ... occupies).
⁋186-187→205-206: Expanded
⁋188→207: Expanded. Added "He also said that he had worked with “both leaders of the House and Senate” on a “bill that will be put out in the Florida legislature that will make sure that” the Contracts “are revoked.”"
⁋190→209: Expanded.
Fifth Claim: #FirstAmendment (Speech chilled by the dissolution of #RCID and formation of #CFTOD)
This last is largely orthogonal to the other claims since it is about #DeSantis' initial #unconstitutional temper tantrum (and the attempt to fix it) and not the direct economic damage of actually voiding the contracts.
#Disney still wants the original landowner-elected RCID back, so these paragraphs look the same.
Finally comes the Prayer for Relief.
Expanded by adding Senate Bill 1604 to the Legislative Findings of the CFTOD as things that should be declared Unconstitutional in 4 different ways and also enjoined from enforcement (in say the state court case of CFTOD v. Disney)¹.
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¹ Added in Edit. See also:2023-CA-011818-O : Central Florida Tourism Oversight District vs. Walt Disney Parks And Resorts US Inc (Alleging technical fact-based reasons why the contracts are void, which is the conclusion they sought to find)
9th Circuit/Orange County Court Records can be accessed at:
https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/Cases/Search?caseType=CV&caseTypeDesc=Civil%20Case%20RecordsBut the CAPTCHA makes it hard to link to and the 60 MB complaint is slow to download.
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#DeSantis' hand-picked #CFTOD has sued #Disney in Orlando on 2023/05/01. (9th District, Division 33)
2023-CA-011818-O : Central Florida Tourism Oversight District vs. Walt Disney Parks And Resorts US Inc
Deadline has the complaint.
https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-ron-desantis-countersuit-retaliation-dont-say-gay-law-1235352970/They allege
• #RCID failed to mail a notice to all affected property owners (but fail to name any or cite case law interpreting the statute)
• RCID didn't pass necessary enabling legislation to give them the ability to enter development agreements under the Local Government Development Agreement Act (again no case law or even full statues cited)
• They complain that Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista are affected non-parties (but there were separate bilateral agreements between Disney and those cities, yes?)
• Something cray-cray about Florida Constitution Article VII, Section 12 that seems conjured out of thin air
• A technical argument that because am alleged failure of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista to communicate a 2018/11/14 plan, the agreements between Disney and RCID are invalid
• An argument that all binding Development Agreements are illegal delegation of local government's legislative powers
• Claims that what's good for Ron DeSantis is good for the USA (I mean public policy), and the contracts are against public policy, unconscionable, and lack any consideration (despite whining that the contracts have obligations for both parties)They also complain:
"Disney continues to assert that the agreements are valid and enforceable, including filing a lawsuit based on claims purportedly arising under federal law that seeks to revive and assert rights under the Development Agreement and the Restrictive Covenants."See: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67271062/walt-disney-parks-and-resorts-us-inc-v-desantis/
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"You're making me angry. You won't like me when 'broccoli over water' gets angry." https://archive.is/ZtQ68
The Reedy Creek Improvement District's logo from was updated in 2017, but prior it was this chef's hat-like icon.
🌐 | https://www.magicaltrash.com/post/682471393830567936/disney-trash-can-orlando-reedycreek-broccoli-2018
📷 | Daniel WandermanUsed with Permission. #MagicalTrash #DisneyTrashCan #TrashCan #DisneyParks #Orlando #WDW #DisneySprings #RCID #ReedyCreekImprovementDistrict
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"Until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England" https://archive.is/UpnNX
Used with Permission. #MagicalTrash #DisneyTrashCan #TrashCan #DisneyParks #Orlando #WDW #RCID #ReedyCreek #StupidStartsWithDeSantis
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I wish I had posted it here so that I had proof, but I was saying to others a while back that I expected #Disney had an ace up their sleeve because they put up absolutely no resistance to #DeSantis taking over control of #RCID. #Florida #DisneyParks #WaltDisneyWorld