{"id":2022041,"date":"2023-09-05T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-looks-to-narrow-federal-lawsuit-against-desantis-to-first-amendment-claims\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:57:57","slug":"disney-looks-to-narrow-federal-lawsuit-against-desantis-to-first-amendment-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-looks-to-narrow-federal-lawsuit-against-desantis-to-first-amendment-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney aims to focus federal lawsuit against DeSantis on First Amendment claims."},"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%2Fdisney-looks-to-narrow-federal-lawsuit-against-desantis-to-first-amendment-claims%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=2022041&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 Seeks to Narrow Lawsuit\u200d Against \u2063Gov. Ron\u2064 DeSantis to Free Speech Violations<\/h2>\n<p>Lawyers for Disney are making \u2064a strategic move\u2062 in their lawsuit\u2062 against Gov.\u200d Ron DeSantis \u200d(R-FL) and the board of the district encompassing\u200d the Walt Disney World Resort. They are now\u2064 focusing on <a title=\"Disney aims to focus federal lawsuit against DeSantis on First Amendment claims.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-looks-to-narrow-federal-lawsuit-against-desantis-to-first-amendment-claims\/\">alleged free \u200bspeech violations<\/a>, aiming to withdraw their initial claims and \u2062hone in on the fifth\u200d claim.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Disney&#8217;s Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>The fifth \u200dclaim in the complaint asserts that the defendants infringed on Disney&#8217;s <a title=\"States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-push-to-rein-in-big-tech-as-federal-gears-grind-slow\/\">free speech rights<\/a> by\u200c retaliating against the company for expressing its views on the Florida Parental Rights in Education\u2062 law in\u200d 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In their filing, Disney argues that \u200cthe first \u200bfour claims should be withdrawn \u2062without prejudice due \u200dto ongoing litigation in the state court regarding contract-based claims.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This federal case\u200c will\u2064 therefore address only the current Fifth Cause of \u2062Action,\u2062 not at \u200cissue in the state court case: Disney&#8217;s \u2063First Amendment challenge to the retaliatory reconstitution of the Reedy \u200bCreek Improvement District,&#8221; the filing explains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Judge \u200cAllen Winsor rejected Disney&#8217;s motion on procedural grounds, advising them \u2063to refile the motion after conferring with the defendants and complying with the Local Rules.<\/p>\n<p>This move to narrow the scope \u200bof the federal lawsuit\u2062 follows Disney&#8217;s unsuccessful attempt to\u2062 dismiss the state lawsuit filed by the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.\u2062 The state lawsuit directly addresses the \u2064legality of the agreements\u2062 mentioned in the first four claims of the\u2062 federal lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Disney filed the\u2063 lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis, acting Secretary of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Meredith Ivey, and\u200d the Central\u2062 Florida Tourism Oversight District board in \u2063the\u200b U.S. District Court for the Northern District\u200c of Florida. The company alleges that there has\u2063 been a &#8220;relentless campaign to weaponize government power against Disney in retaliation for \u200cexpressing a <a title=\"Cammack backs DeSantis's Disney feud: 'Disney inserted themselves into this fight'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cammack-backs-desantiss-disney-feud-disney-inserted-themselves-into-this-fight\/\">political viewpoint unpopular<\/a> with certain State officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The alleged \u2064&#8221;weaponization&#8221;\u2062 by DeSantis stems from his signing legislation to restructure the district encompassing the Walt Disney World Resort, increasing state \u200coversight. The lawsuit was filed after an\u200c agreement between Disney and the previous board, which aimed\u2064 to limit the state&#8217;s power in the district, was declared void.<\/p>\n<p>While DeSantis and other\u200b state defendants are seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed, \u2062the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District \u2064board&#8217;s counter-lawsuit continues\u2062 in \u2063state court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s lawyers aim to narrow the lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and the district board to alleged free speech violations. In a recent filing, Disney sought to withdraw its initial four claims against DeSantis and state officials, leaving only the fifth claim intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022042,"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":"Disney aims to focus federal lawsuit against DeSantis on First Amendment claims.","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022041","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","fifu_image_alt":"Disney aims to focus federal lawsuit against DeSantis on First Amendment claims.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022041","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=2022041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}