Disney filed a lawsuit against Governor Ron DeSantis and his appointed Board of Supervisors for the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (formerly Reedy Creek Improvement District) for retaliating against Disney for certain public statements.
DeSantis has already made some initial comments about the lawsuit, including that he doesn’t think it has “merit.” But now the District’s board is preparing for battle.
According to an updated notice on the “meetings” portion of the Reedy Creek website, the District’s board has scheduled a special meeting for May 1st, 2023.
Their only new business is a “Board discussion and direction to litigation counsel and authorization to defend District officials sued in official capacities.”
At this meeting, we may be able to hear a bit about the board’s initial thoughts on the lawsuit, and then get some details on how they’ll be directing their legal counsel to proceed.
The meeting will take place at 9:30AM at the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort, and we expect a livestream could be made available via the District’s YouTube channel at that time.
UPDATE: Deadline reported that the lawsuit will be assigned to a different judge because U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin Fitzpatrick is reportedly related “in the third degree” to someone employed by someone involved in the lawsuit.
To learn more about Disney’s lawsuit and what they’ve alleged, click here. You can also click here for DeSantis’ response, see what the Florida Legislature has been up to with regards to Reedy Creek, or click here for our FULL post covering every detail of the entire situation.
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it just seems to me as i have read over the past few weeks that whenever something comes up over the back and forth with the walt disney company the state legislation of the state of florida comes up with a new bill to address the problem at hand to deal with it so to say the law is on their side. in other words to justify their actions in ongoing dispute with disney?. are not the laws that are in place good enough? and what about the other special districts that are in florida? is the state of florida ready to take on the task of taking care of walt disney world where millions of people visit each year? and keep up with the disney quality standard? i still believe in the long run it will be the people who live, work, and visit the state of florida who will suffer from this.