Taylor Swift received a welcome gift from U2 when she landed in Dublin, Ireland, for her latest stop on The Eras Tour.
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Disney‘s now-abandoned Florida relocation plan for staffers has created some pretty dark legal skies.
More than a year after the once again Bob Iger-run Disney dropped its Bob Chapek-era initiative to consolidate some California operations and employees in a new campus in Orlando’s Lake Nona area, a current VP of Product Design and a director of Product Design are taking the company to court in a potential class action.
“As a result of relying on the statements relating to the Lake Nona project, and Disney’s failure to share the concealed facts, Plaintiffs, and all similarly situated employees, experienced various harms including losses relating to selling their homes in California, purchasing new homes in Florida, and other expenses and damages related to unnecessarily moving across the country,” reads the jury-seeking complaint (read it here) filed Wednesday night in Los Angeles Superior Court by Disney staffers Maria De La Cruz and George Fong.
Casting aside its 2021 proclamations of “Florida’s business-friendly climate, the state’s generous $500 million tax credit offer and Chapek’s idea of an amalgamation of resources, Disney pulled the plug on the ambitious $1 billion and more Lake Nona project in May 2023. The death knell was a consequence of the company’s now concluded legal battle with onetime presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis over his Don’t Say Gay law, so-called woke corporate polices and bureaucratic control of the area around Disney World.
With the relocation already push back once before to 2026, the real-world fallout of the battle of the political and C-suite titans shattered the lives of the people in the middle, the lawsuit claims.
“Plaintiffs, and similarly situated employees, would not have
Taylor Swift received a welcome gift from U2 when she landed in Dublin, Ireland, for her latest stop on The Eras Tour.
Disney’s efforts to have an antitrust class action from streaming subscribers dismissed has been denied one more time, but the company will now not be on the hook for any cash.
Game 7 of the epic 2024 Stanley Cup Final was worthy of the hype — and the TV ratings reflected the historic night. An average audience of 16.3 million viewers tuned in across multiple networks in North America, making Monday’s clinching tilt the second-most-watched NHL game in 20 years.
A Florida teen’s night out turned into a tragedy earlier this month — and cops still aren’t sure what happened.
UPDATE, 1:45 PM: In a split decision of sorts, an L.A. Superior Court judge has given Disney a month to articulate why they can’t hand over dozens of requested documents in the pay equity class action.
For decades it was THE place to go for kids in Stockport, but much of it has been reduced to rubble while what's left remains under threat. Grand Central opened in 1991 as a multi-million pound entertainment, leisure and shopping complex.
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Ban This Book, by Alan Gratz, from its shelves, overriding its own Florida district book-review committee’s decision rejecting a challenge to the book.The children’s novel follows a fictional fourth-grade student who creates a secret library of banned books in her locker after her local school board bans those titles.Indian River School Board members said they disliked how it referenced other books that have been removed from schools and accused it of “teaching rebellion of school board authority.”Ban This Book, which had been housed in two elementary school libraries and a middle school, was challenged by Jennifer Pippin, president of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national right-wing group that routinely rails against books that they claim contain “age-inappropriate content” and address LGBTQ rights, among other fabricated grievances.The school board voted 3-2 to remove the book from shelves, with two candidates backed by Moms for Liberty voting to remove it, along with a third member , Kevin McDonald, who was recently appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill a vacant seat following the ill-timed resignation of Brian Barefoot.McDonald tried to justify banning the book by claiming the board was acting on behalf of parents who wanted to keep their children from being “indoctrinated” or exposed to allegedly “woke” ideas.“The title itself and the theme challenges our authority,” McDonald said of Ban This Book.
If you’re visiting Walt Disney World with your family, you might want to eat first.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Sony Pictures Classics‘ Dylan Leiner along with FilmNation’s Stefan Zorich and Paramount‘s Fabrizio Carrer were among the top film executives and companies who participated in the 13th NY Film & Entertainment Soccer Tournament for charity hosted at the Tribeca Festival. The sun-drenched event gathered 39 teams, along with more than 60 filmmakers from the Tribeca Festival, and hundreds of spectators at Brooklyn Bridge Park overlooking downtown Manhattan.
an Instagram post to mark Madeleine’s 42nd birthday June 10, the Royal House of Sweden announced their move to the country’s capital city was imminent.“Today marks the birthday of H.K.H. Princess Madeleine 42 years,” the royal house wrote in the caption, via translation from Swedish.
Barron Trump has achieved one of life’s greatest milestones. The youngest son of Donald Trump recently graduated from high school, in a ceremony hosted in Florida that was attended by his parents and his grandfather. Barron graduated from Oxford Academy, an exclusive school located in West Palm Beach.
What’s next for Emma Roberts in 2024 after the “Madame Web” debacle? In fairness to the actress, she only had a supporting role in Sony‘s Spidey-verse spinoff, but that doesn’t mean Roberts isn’t looking to rebound somehow. Well, how about a winning comedy to set things right again? READ MORE: Amazon Dates Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Road House’ For March, ‘Red One’ With Chris Evans & The Rock For November & More “Space Cadet” sounds like a comedy right in Robert’s comfort zone: a comedy about Rex, a Florida party girl who inexplicably gets accepted into NASA’s astronaut training program and somehow becomes the top of her class.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Disney dropped its appeal on Thursday in its First Amendment lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, officially ending the two-year battle sparked by the company’s opposition to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law. The move came a day after a state board approved a new 15-year development agreement, which will allow Disney to invest up to $17 billion to expand its Orlando theme parks.
Well, this is just horrifying… A Florida woman is being sent to trial in Octob
Ivanka Trump is showing off some of the skills she’s picked up while in Miami. The former White House advisor shared a video of herself surfing and enjoying herself on the beach, one of the places she enjoys the most.Lauren Sánchez and Ivanka Trump are officially part of Kim Kardashian’s bestiesDonald Trump’s daughter-in-law shares video of former president with grandkidsA post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump)The post was shared on Instagram and is made up of various videos and a photo. The first shows Ivanka surfing as she wears a vest, a black bathing suit, and a black hat.
ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender youth.Florida is currently one of 25 states with such restrictions in place.Hinkle’s ruling also blocks Florida officials from enforcing rules approved by the Florida Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine in order to comply with the law.Those rules not only bar youth from accessing gender-affirming treatments, but imposed the first-of-their-kind restrictions to make it more difficult for transgender adults in the state to access gender-affirming care.Among those restrictions were that adult patients could only see a doctor in person before receiving any kind of gender-affirming treatment, including regular prescription renewals. That limited the number of medical professionals available to transgender adults.
Golf star Rory McIlroy and his wife Erica Stoll have made an unexpected U-turn and called off their divorce plans. Despite laying the legal groundwork for a divorce only last month, it appears that love's not lost between the pair, who have decided to give their marriage another shot.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Jon Bon Jovi is a snowbird — the nickname given to people of a certain age who flee their northern homes during the winter months to areas with warmer climates. It’s late April and the famous New Jersey native is in Palm Beach, Fla. “My license still says the great state of New Jersey,” the Bon Jovi frontman tells me on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast.
Madonna‘s legal team has labelled the class action lawsuit against the singer for showing up late on stage as a “harassment campaign”.More than one class action lawsuit has been filed over her late starts during her recent ‘Celebration’ 40th anniversary tour. In January, Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, two fans who bought tickets to the December 13 date of Madonna’s ‘Celebration’ shows at the Barclays Center, filed a lawsuit against Madonna in New York for starting the concert more than two hours past the stipulated 8:30pm start time.The lawsuit accused her of not only breaching contracts with ticket buyers, but also of “false advertising, negligent representation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices”.A few months later, Madonna asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed against her.