It appears Disney is slowly making its way back on top in the Sunshine State with a recent ruling in favor of disbanding the CFTOD and bringing back the original Reedy Creek Improvement District. The battle between the Walt Disney Company and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has died down, but in the quiet, it appears Disney might be coming out ...

Richard Foglesong, a renowned Disney World scholar, recently shared further insight into the current happenings in the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (formerly known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District). While the more dramatic aspects of the Disney-DeSantis battle have certainly calmed down, the question still remains about how the issue will be resolved and, more importantly, what the future ...

After former Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek spoke out against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, known by its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had very few options to retaliate. After all, Walt Disney World was one of the state’s largest employers and taxpayers. So, what could be done? Governor Desantis could organize ...

Back in August, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District paid conservative law professor Donald Kochan to write a report on the history of the Reedy Creek Improvement District and its relationship with Walt Disney World over its 56 years of existence. For his efforts, the Board paid Kochan $115,000. But right from the beginning, Kochan’s report aimed to find any ...

Near the end of the film National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), there is a scene where the Delta Tau Chi fraternity has been kicked out of the fictional Faber College. Their leader, Otter, played by Tim Matheson, is trying to decide how they should respond to this insult. And he comes up with one of the great quotes in cinematic history. ...

The dispute between The Walt Disney Company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has had several twists and turns, some of them have bordered on absurd, but what it has really revealed are some of the more significant issues in Central Florida. While the Florida governor stripped Disney World of its self-governing District, many stood idly by and watched, either out ...

It’s hard to believe that it’s only been nine months since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stripped Walt Disney World of the Reedy Creek Improvement District and replaced it with the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. In those nine months, it’s fair to say that the new District and its Board of DeSantis appointees have run into trouble overseeing a District ...

In February 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially dissolved the Reedy Creek Improvement District — a district created for Disney in 1967. The Reedy Creek Improvement District allowed Walt Disney World Resort to essentially operate as its own government. Disney had its own first responders, its own electrical grid, and was responsible for its own road repairs. The dissolution of ...

When The Walt Disney Company sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District in Federal Court, the first move by lawyers representing the governor was to ask for a new judge. Initially, the case was assigned to Judge Mark E. Wallace. Wallace, who former President Barack Obama appointed, had been critical of several of the laws ...

Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution imposes certain restrictions on the states. The states are not allowed to print their own money, nor are they allowed to form their own armies. During the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court used this Clause of the Constitution to keep from recognizing the union formed by the seceding ...