As Predicted, Lawsuit Against Florida Over Disney Is Thrown Out

Sometimes you’re proven right faster than you even expected…

On May 4th, we had to take a break from our near-continuous Star Wars coverage to address a bit of misinformation that was making its way through the mainstream press and Disney blogs. If you were a reader of those sites, you may have believed that a legitimate legal challenge was taking place against the State of Florida which would cause the Reedy Creek Improvement District that governs Walt Disney World to be saved. You may have also believed that a huge number of Osceola County residents, or even the government itself, was filing this most grave lawsuit. You might even still believe that taxes are going to explode for residents of Central Florida should Disney World lose some of its self-governance power.

And that’s why we ran an article to say, “none of that is true.” From “Misinformation Alert: No, Osceola Is NOT Suing Florida Over Disney“:

After a conversation with our TPP Legal Analyst, this is a complete waste of time. The lawsuit fails on three prongs of standing and is likely to be dismissed with prejudice using a 12b6 standard. SCOTUS has ruled there is very limited means by which to sue over taxes, which this lawsuit fails to meet. The claim is based on a hypothetical AND the claim depends on a first amendment violation proved against a third party… and that is not allowed for considerations of standing. Our legal analyst is so confident in this that we plan to post the 12b6 ruling once it is released, even if all the other sites out there have moved on once they’ve gotten all the readership they can from a flash in the pan headline.

The legal eagle couch attorneys were up in arms at us for a while. We received heated feedback on other sites. One message sent our way wanted us to doxx our legal analyst who happens to be a Florida lawyer. But guess what? After all those misinformed articles were published on other sites and after we caught flak for running our corrective piece… it turns out we were 100% correct. From Fox Business:

The new law “does not apply to them, they do not allege direct harm as a result of the challenged law, and they do not plausibly allege any credible threat of direct harm in the future,” the judge ruled.

The plaintiffs based their claim to standing on the supposition that the district’s elimination “might result in financial harm to Plaintiffs by virtue of a tax increase that has not yet been enacted,” Altonaga wrote. “That indirect and highly speculative alleged injury cannot support federal jurisdiction. … Again — it is worth emphasizing — the bill does not apply to Plaintiffs at all.”

In other words, what we thought would take six months to be dismissed with prejudice only took a few weeks. Guess what else? It was all a political stunt anyway.

….taxpayers who live near @WaltDisneyWorld in Orlando, filed the lawsuit in federal court. Their filing says that they (and other taxpayers) “will now have to assume the tax burden that Disney previously assumed under the special tax status” @CourthouseNews reported.#SayGay🏳️‍🌈

— Jhawn Paul (@PinkSheepNews) May 6, 2022

Now, you can keep reading those other sites that give you false info or lead you to believe a narrative that isn’t true… or you can start adding That Park Place to your list of websites that help you know what’s really going on. We don’t carry water for either political party, we don’t pull favors for Disney or Universal or Dollywood or anyone else. We just try to relay the news as best we can in the most accurate fashion we know how. You might not always like what we’ll say, but you’ll know we’re trying to give it to you straight.

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