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

https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/111001988731147118

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 a them portrayed as heros 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

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.

@volkris @Spicewalla @dangillmor

The significant pro-Trump event shown in the RCP graph is March 27-April 3 corresponding to the New York indictment while the Florida (Federal) indictment happened on June 8.

Also during the March 27-April 3 period was a flurry of press about Disney outwitting #DeSantis retaliation scheme replacing the #RCID with the #CFTOD.

Since Trump and DeSantis have always been the front-runners, one's loss is the other's gain so it is unclear from polling alone to what extent Trump is strengthening or DeSantis is weakening.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166925827/disney-world-board-desantis-power-florida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/united-states-v-trump/

@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?

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.

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

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

So regarding deadlines in #Disney v. #DeSantis (and #CFTOD) ...

Disney has perfected service upon defendants in the Federal case, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. v. DeSantis (4:23-cv-00163) District Court, N.D. Florida with a response required by 2023/05/22

In the state case of Central Florida Tourism Oversight District v. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc., (2023-CA-011818-O, Ninth District, Orange County, Orlando) which was filed on 2023/05/01 the general practice is that Disney would have 20 (not 21) days to respond after being served. The clerk issued a summons on 2023/05/03 so even if the Leon County Sheriff served the summons on the same day, no response would be required until 2023/05/23.

The Florida Legislature has approved #SB1604 to purportedly retroactively cancel the #RCID contracts made before the CFTOD takeover. Unlike the rest of the bill, section 4 is supposed to take effect immediately after becoming law. This just indicates that they didn't bother to study any of the constitutional issues raised by Disney.

https://xkcd.com/1657/

@ThinkingSapien

It's a fun discussion about the wrangling between #Disney and #Florida Governor #DeSantis, culminating in a discussion of the #RuleAgainstPerpetuities

But if you already know about the #ReedyCreek Improvement District's February meeting, it adds nothing new because we have yet to see Disney argue in court that FL's abolition of #RCID was a #BillOfAttainder or FL's mewling attempts to say RCID and Disney couldn't sign new contracts just because DeSantis was making loud noises and telegraphing his punches.

SNL gives Ron "The Boy" DeSantis good roasting over his grudge match with #Disney and regressive social stances #BabyMayor #ReedyCreek #RCID #WDWhttps://youtu.be/Kcu7w0uPK4g