Disney's lawsuit against Ron DeSantis dismissed
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning. Today is Thursday, February 1st. I'm Julie Morgan. A judge dismisses Disney's lawsuit against Florida Governor |
| 0:16.3 | Ron DeSantis. Tesla is hoping to stay under the radar of Congress and Qualcomm's |
| 0:22.1 | results top expectations. |
| 0:25.8 | In a win for Ron DeSantis, a federal judge has dismissed Disney's lawsuit against the Florida |
| 0:30.9 | governor and other state officials. |
| 0:33.4 | The lawsuit claimed that they retaliated against Disney for its stance on a controversial law. |
| 0:38.9 | Judge Alan Windsor ruled that Disney lacked legal standing to Sue DeSantis or the Secretary R. they violated the company's free speech rights. The judge acknowledged |
| 0:54.0 | that the decision by Desantis to dissolve Disney's special district |
| 0:58.3 | through which it operated with autonomy worked to its significant detriment. |
| 1:03.0 | Disney filed the lawsuit against DeSantis and other state officials last year |
| 1:08.0 | for allegedly weaponizing the power of government to punish private business |
| 1:12.0 | after the company publicly |
| 1:13.8 | criticized the Parental Rights and Education Act, commonly referred to as the |
| 1:18.6 | Don't Say Gay Law. After Desantis dissolved Disney Special District, a new special taxing district was created. |
| 1:26.6 | Windsor dismissed Disney's claims against board members of the new Special District |
| 1:31.3 | on the merits for failure to state a claim. The judge said that |
| 1:35.0 | said that Disney has not alleged any specific injury from any board |
| 1:39.0 | action. Its alleged injury is it's operating under a board it cannot control. |
| 1:44.5 | A statement from Desantis said that the days of Disney controlling its own government |
| 1:49.5 | and being placed above the law are long gone. A Disney spokesperson said it will press forward |
| 1:55.4 | with the case. The statement went on to say that if left unchallenged this would |
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