{"id":1985481,"date":"2023-07-28T19:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-motion-to-dismiss-state-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointed-board-denied-by-judge-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:45:59","slug":"disney-motion-to-dismiss-state-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointed-board-denied-by-judge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-motion-to-dismiss-state-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointed-board-denied-by-judge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies Disney&#8217;s motion to dismiss state lawsuit appointed by DeSantis."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdisney-motion-to-dismiss-state-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointed-board-denied-by-judge-2%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=1985481&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>An Orange County Judge Denies Disney&#8217;s Motion in Lawsuit<\/h2>\n<p>An Orange County, Florida, judge has\u200d made\u200d a significant decision in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ducks-emergency-appeal-in-tennessee-abortion-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Ducks Emergency Appeal in Tennessee Abortion Case\">ongoing legal battle<\/a> between Disney and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. The judge, Margaret Schreiber, denied Disney&#8217;s motion to dismiss or stay the lawsuit filed by the district board.<\/p>\n<h3>The District&#8217;s Claims Against Disney<\/h3>\n<p>The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board brought a countersuit against Disney, alleging that the\u2062 company is challenging Florida&#8217;s \u2064&#8221;people&#8217;s sovereignty.&#8221; \u200bThey \u2064argue that Disney&#8217;s actions violate various laws, including the Florida constitution. Judge Schreiber rejected Disney&#8217;s \u2062claim that the lawsuit was moot, stating that a ruling on\u200d the validity of the agreements \u200cwould \u2062have legal consequences.<\/p>\n<h3>Judge Schreiber&#8217;s Ruling<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Schreiber\u200d also dismissed Disney&#8217;s argument that the lawsuit should be stayed until the federal court case is resolved. She \u200cclarified that the \u200bdistrict&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-motion-to-dismiss-state-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointed-board-denied-by-judge-2\/\" title=\"Judge denies Disney's motion to dismiss state lawsuit appointed by DeSantis.\">claims \u2063seek affirmative relief<\/a>, not just a defense.\u200c To obtain this relief, the district would need to assert a counterclaim in federal\u200d court.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after a recent hearing where Judge Schreiber took time to carefully consider the arguments presented by both parties.<\/p>\n<h3>The Federal Lawsuit and\u200d Disney&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note\u200b that the state court lawsuit is separate from the federal \u2063lawsuit filed by Disney against the board and Governor Ron DeSantis. In the federal lawsuit, Disney accuses state officials of using government power against them due to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-and-state-defendants-file-motion-to-dismiss-disney-lawsuit\/\" title=\"DeSantis and state defendants seek dismissal of Disney lawsuit.\">unpopular political viewpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit,\u2062 Disney claimed that Governor DeSantis\u200b was attempting to evade \u200dresponsibility.<\/p>\n<h3>The Background of the Feud<\/h3>\n<p>The conflict between Disney and Governor DeSantis arose from Disney&#8217;s opposition to the Parental Rights in Education Act, which the governor signed into law. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-motion-to-dismiss-state-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointed-board-denied-by-judge\/\" title=\"Judge denies Disney's motion to dismiss state lawsuit appointed by DeSantis.\">disagreement ultimately led<\/a> to the restructuring of Disney&#8217;s central Florida district.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on this ongoing legal battle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Orange County judge in Florida rejected Disney&#8217;s request to dismiss or delay a lawsuit filed by the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board. The board, responsible for governing the Walt Disney World Resort area, had filed a countersuit against Disney in May, alleging the company&#8217;s wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1985482,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1985481","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}