MAGA Judge Dismisses Disney’s Free Speech Lawsuit Against DeSantis

A Trump-appointed judge dismissed Disney’s lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis. The corporation had accused DeSantis of retaliating against it for publicly criticizing his “Don’t Say Gay Law” by seizing punitive swaths of control. We here at C&L have covered the matter extensively and it sure looks like that’s exactly what happened.

But while Judge Allen Winsor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida Tallahassee agreed that DeSantis’ control board “works to Disney’s significant detriment,” the Tampa Bay Times noted he also “said the company could not point to the motivation behind the legislation to say it was unfairly targeted.”

Winsor also ruled Disney lacked standing:

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