So the new board hired lawyers?

[georgina]

I might be missing something, but it seems odd/sad (incompetent?) that the incoming board, with all this new found responsibility given to them by the Gov, took more than 5 weeks to even understand this happened in a public forum??

Have you looked at the new board? Donors and friends of Ron. They were not appointed for their competency.

 

[Allison]

I might be missing something, but it seems odd/sad (incompetent?) that the incoming board, with all this new found responsibility given to them by the Gov, took more than 5 weeks to even understand this happened in a public forum??

One of his appointees seems to believe that estrogen in tap water makes more people gay so they aren't dealing with people with good reasoning skills.

 

[GoingSince1990]

I know I'm jumping ahead a bit, but if DeSantis does indeed become president it will be interesting to see how flattering Disney makes his animatronic look in the Hall of Presidents. Or maybe at that point they will decide that attraction has run its course (for us it's the one where once in a while I half-heartedly try to get the kids to agree to see in the hope that I can congratulate myself on doing something vaguely educational, but quickly fold like a cheap suit in the face of their vehement objections. Bad parenting I know.....)

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Any other lawyers in the group giggle at the rule against perpetuities clause in the resolution...

We have something similar here. You have to have an end date. You can't just say in perpetuity. The restrictive covenants on my property end for example when the last relative of Ronald Wilson Reagan dies. It can actually take forever if that line doesn't die out, But you can't just say forever.

 

[NotUrsula]

Actually, it's *5* law firms, not 3. They already had Fishback Dominick of Winter Park on retainer, but have added add'l counsel for this particular dispute. The new ones are from:

Cooper & Kirk of Washington, DC
Lawson, Huck, Gonzalez of Tallahassee, FL
Nardella & Nardella of Orlando, FL
Waugh Grant PLLC or Orlando, FL

The presence of Cooper & Kirk (a prominant DC boutique firm that is most famous for defending against US Constitutional challenges) on the list ties this whole situation firmly to DeSantis himself. One of the partners is his former Navy roommate, and the firm has already been paid nearly $6M by the State of Florida since 2019, much of it for work on blocking the Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative (aka FL Amendment 4) in 2019, and for defending the Stop W.O.K.E. Act in 2022. C&K does not work cheap.

PS: One of the very oddest things about this whole fight is that at the moment, Disney money is paying the lawyers on both sides of it. The former Reedy Creek Improvement District only has one source of revenue; taxpayers who own property within it. There are several different corporate entities who pay taxes, but AFAIK, all of them are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Walt Disney Company. Most of the money currently in the District's accounts is already earmarked for existing debt, so unless Disney keeps paying in, the money to pay new lawyers will dry up.

 

[superme80]

I had a good laugh over a video doing a break down of this. I am looking forward to the Lifetime movie about this in 20 years.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Seems an awful lot of money to spend if there is no pragmatic difference. The fuss and monumental expense for lawyers being absorbed tells me there is more to this than meets the eye... what is it exactly that has been going on? Also, it would seem some really think the Magic Kingdom is a Kingdom... so that's half funny and half scary TBH.