Disney says Walt Disney World’s governing district made up of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees is dragging its feet in providing requested documents to the company in a lawsuit over who has design and construction powers over Disney’s sprawling theme park resort in central Florida.

Walt Disney World’s governing district made up of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees is dragging its feet in providing requested documents to Disney in a lawsuit over who has design and construction powers over the company’s sprawling theme park resort in central Florida, Disney said in court papers.

Disney on Thursday accused the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District of “dodging its obligations” and asked a Florida judge to delay any decision on whether the case should proceed until the company gets documents and conducts depositions needed to argue against a summary judgement requested by the district.

A hearing is scheduled for mid-December. Disney is seeking a delay of two and a half months.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    100·
    11 months ago

    I really love that he thought he could tango with Disney.

    Disney eats mega lawsuits for breakfast. I’m trying to think of a publicly traded company that would be worse to piss off in the courts. Maybe Amazon or Microsoft, based on capital, but like… Disney is fucking litigious

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
      52·
      11 months ago

      I saw a comment about Disney lawyers a while back. This guy said he used to date a girl whose father was a Disney lawyer. He described the father as extremely intelligent, driven and completely soulless.

          • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Yeah, a generic law degree can be got with basic rote memorization and gramarely for the papers…

        • TheActualDevil@lemmy.world
          6·
          11 months ago

          You know, I’ve met a few people that I was told were lawyers before meeting them and I was surprised at how kind and empathetic they were. Then, as we would get to talking, inevitably it would come out and they’d say “Oh, I don’t practice anymore. That shits horrible.”

          Every lawyer I’ve met that still practices is 100% dead inside and I’ve never felt like I could trust them. Maybe there are lawyers that break this mold, but I am going to baselessly assume they are only a few years from getting out because a good person can’t survive in that world.

        • JollyGreen_sasquatch@sh.itjust.works
          61·
          11 months ago

          I’ve been dealing with lawyers and court recently, they may be above average in terms of intelligence and drive but most wouldn’t be extremely above that average. I’ve had to explain fairly basic math, with easy numbers (fractions like 1/2 and 1/3 regarding pay structure), several times already. Ie

          • base = 100
          • bonus = 1/2 * base
          • total = base + bonus.

          Still had to explain that bonus is 1/3 total not 1/2 total.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        My point is that even the most powerful can not step on Disney’s toes and see no accountability.

        I have more faith that Disney will embarrass DeSantis in the courts than I do Trump ever setting foot inside a cell.