{"id":1942632,"date":"2023-06-02T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-recuses-himself-from-disney-desantis-case-after-discovering-relative-owns-company-stocks\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:47:14","slug":"judge-recuses-himself-from-disney-desantis-case-after-discovering-relative-owns-company-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-recuses-himself-from-disney-desantis-case-after-discovering-relative-owns-company-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge steps down from Disney, DeSantis case due to family&#8217;s stock ownership."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-recuses-himself-from-disney-desantis-case-after-discovering-relative-owns-company-stocks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1942632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disney\u2019s First Amendment Lawsuit Against Florida Governor Faces New Judge<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">federal judge<\/a> that was set to oversee Disney\u2019s First Amendment lawsuit filed against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recused himself from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-considers-allowing-video-of-george-floyds-2019-arrest-in-trial\/\" title=\"Judge considers allowing video of George Floyd\u2019s 2019 arrest in trial\">high-profile case<\/a> on June 1 after discovering that a \u201crelative within the third degree of relationship\u201d owns Disney stock.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>U.S. Chief District Judge Mark Walker, an Obama appointee, was replaced by Judge Allen Winsor, a Trump appointee who has dismissed multiple lawsuits challenging Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education Bill. The case involves Disney\u2019s claim that DeSantis\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-recuses-himself-from-disney-desantis-case-after-discovering-relative-owns-company-stocks\/\" title=\"Judge steps down from Disney, DeSantis case due to family's stock ownership.\">executive order banning vaccine passports violates<\/a> the company\u2019s First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5302516\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/31\/id5302516-GettyImages-1258300729-1200x720.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/31\/id5302516-GettyImages-1258300729-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"Florida Governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks during his campaign kickoff event at Eternity Church in Clive, Iowa, on May 30, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5302516\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Walker\u2019s Previous Comments Cause Concern<\/h3>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 lawyers had previously requested that Judge Walker be disqualified from the case, citing comments he made in two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-asks-that-judge-be-disqualified-from-disneys-free-speech-lawsuit\/\" title=\"DeSantis wants judge removed from Disney free speech case.\">unrelated lawsuits<\/a> that dealt with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-coronavirus-rules-are-stifling-free-speech-on-campus\/\" title=\"Report: Coronavirus Rules Are Stifling Free Speech On Campus\">free speech issues<\/a> and fear of retaliation. In response, Walker recused himself after discovering that a relative owns Disney stock.<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s lawsuit against DeSantis claims that the governor\u2019s executive order banning vaccine passports violates the company\u2019s First Amendment rights. The case will now be heard by Judge Winsor.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018Rank Judge-Shopping\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Walker dismissed DeSantis\u2019 motion to disqualify him from the case, calling it \u201cwholly without merit\u201d and \u201crank judge-shopping.\u201d However, he ultimately chose to recuse himself after discovering the conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The case will continue with Judge Winsor presiding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal judge overseeing Disney&#8217;s First Amendment lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recused himself on June 1 after discovering a relative owns Disney stock. U.S. Chief District Judge Mark Walker, an Obama appointee, stated in a 14-page decision that he could not preside over the high-profile case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1942633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4980,6344,11929,5387,8828,5669,4359],"class_list":["post-1942632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-desantis","tag-disney","tag-familys","tag-judge","tag-ownership","tag-steps","tag-stock"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}