#Florida: Disney enters the arena with DeSantis.Richard Epstein, Hoover
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
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#Florida: Disney enters the arena with DeSantis.Richard Epstein, Hoover
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-ron-desantis-florida-bob-iger-lawsuit-c82ee25e
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| 0:20.0 | CBS I In The World, I'm John Bacheler and Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, |
| 0:30.0 | a senior fellow, Jesus Law at NYU in the University of Chicago, is here to comment on a news story |
| 0:39.0 | that is likely to head to many courts over many years, depending upon how the fortunes of the players proceed. |
| 0:48.0 | Right now Walt Disney is in a retraction mode, Walt Disney Corporation, a global firm, very successful. |
| 0:55.0 | Layoffs, considerations of streaming, the usual corporate conversation during a supposed or imminent or uponus recession. |
| 1:07.0 | At the same time, the governor of Florida and a very obliging legislature are in a mode to finish their business |
| 1:15.0 | because the governor is much mentioned as a presidential candidate. His fate awaits in politics. |
| 1:22.0 | But right now, Walt Disney headed by a man named Bob Eiger, who is extremely successful but retired and then came back. |
| 1:31.0 | We think to rescue the firm from its troubles. Well, Bob Eiger has advanced a case against Florida, against Mr. DeSantis, for what is said to be a violation of freedom of speech |
| 1:44.0 | and there are other details here. It gets very, well, it gets swampy. So I welcome Richard to comment. |
| 1:51.0 | I will read one opening paragraph of the Wall Street Journal editorial, which sounds amused. |
| 1:57.0 | The Donnie Brook between Disney and Ron DeSantis keeps escalating and what should be a dispute over corporate welfare has devolved into an unfortunate political brawl that both could lose. |
| 2:09.0 | Richard, I love cases where both sides lose. You've told me the best outcome of any dispute is when nobody's happy entirely. |
| 2:18.0 | What is what is the likelihood of this case? |
| 2:21.0 | My guess is in the end, probably the governor will prevail, but there's sort of a lot of very deep ironies in this case. |
| 2:30.0 | One could say that the Disney corporation, if not woke, is certainly left of centered and generally people who are left of centered. |
| 2:37.0 | I do not like any limitations on the power of the state to engage in land use decisions. |
| 2:44.0 | So the pen central state in the Euclid case both give the government enormous was over the way in which land to be used and developed. |
| 2:52.0 | It does carry on to rent control and other things like that. |
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