Fri Sep 8, 2023 – 5:23 pm EDT
ORLANDO, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Far-left entertainment giant Disney has dropped all but one of its claims against the state of Florida over Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s revocation of longstanding special privileges for the company’s Sunshine State resort, in what supporters of the governor and 2024 presidential contender are calling another win.
Fox Business reports that the Walt Disney Company moved to withdraw four of its five complaints against DeSantis and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD), concerning the validity of contracts that were voided by the new oversight board but made before DeSantis instituted it to replace the Reedy Creek Improvement District through which Disney had effectively governed itself for decades.
Those claims are “being actively litigated in the pending state court action” in a suit brought by CFTOD, which Disney unsuccessfully tried to have dismissed, so the “federal case will therefore address only the current Fifth Cause of Action, not at issue in the state court case: Disney’s First Amendment challenge to the retaliatory reconstitution of the Reedy Creek Improvement District,” according to Disney’s filing.
U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor initially rejected the motion on procedural
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