Constitutional law experts: Disney could 'absolutely' sue Florida for retaliation

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On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis traveled to South Florida to sign, among other things, the bill that set into motion the dismantling of Disney’s 55-year-old Reedy Creek Improvement District.

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“You’re going to marshal your economic might to attack the parents of my state,” he said. “We view that as a provocation, and we’re going to fight back against that.”

Elsewhere, the corporation’s lawyers may have been taking notes.

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“Once the government provides a benefit, that benefit can’t be taken away in a way that is unconstitutional,” Lawrence Walters, managing partner of Longwood-based Walters Law Group said. “In other words, the government cannot retaliate against the company in response to the exercise of the company’s First Amendment rights.”

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Is Florida’s rapid-fire smackdown of Disney even legal? Experts raise questions

In four days, the proposals went from drafts to law.

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During the bill-signing Friday in Hialeah Gardens, DeSantis took a victory lap, referencing Disney’s position against the earlier education bill.

“You’re a corporation based in Burbank, Calif., and you’re gonna marshal your economic might to attack the parents of my state?” he said. “We view that as a provocation, and we’re going to fight back against that.”

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“Disney obviously has no right to have a business improvement district, but to take away something like that based on speech, that strikes me as highly likely to be unconstitutional,” said Daniel Greenwood, a law professor at Hofstra University in New York who specializes in corporate speech.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-rapid-fire-smackdown-disney-014957706.html

[Takket]

1. Disney will almost certainly get this overturned......

and if the gop is upset by that i would suggest they offer a constitutional amendment to undo citizens united. i'm sure they'll have no trouble getting Dems to go along with them.

[ZonkerHarris]

2. very good twitter thread. Gov Ron has essentially raised OC residents property taxes by a billion

[Lunabell]

3. I'm no fan of big corporate giveaways and special treatment,

but in this case, I am willing to make an exception and I hope Disney sues Florida and wins.. BIGLY!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This will be fun to watch

[bahboo]

5. the parents of MY state...

fucking little tinhorn dictator....god almighty, vote this piece of shit out....

[XanaDUer2]

6. And taxpayers will be billed if Disney wins

BTW Hialeah is big time republican area

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Yup, yup, yup and yup.

Central Florida lawyers are a disgrace. They ramrodded bad lawyering into a populace that was out of control when it came to government process. When you have lawyers refusing to follow government process, and working behind the scenes to undermine the public, it only rattled those who didn't have any respect for the lawyers OR government process.

The public was hurt by this. We were denied good, affordable lawyers to defend us. And we certainly didn't have a local paper to set things right. Disney could force this state to shed the good ole boy ways, and come into the 21st Century.

[Maraya1969]

8. A 25% increase in property taxes? I don't know anyone who would vote

for that. And I bet a lot of people are going to be pissed if this goes through come next year tax time.