Canal+ Chairman and CEO Maxime Saada has recalled how he travelled to Los Gatos with an olive branch six years ago.
30.09.2023 - 05:07 / deadline.com
Ron DeSantis was in Anaheim on Friday speaking at the California Republican Party Fall Convention. However, a new filing in federal court this week reveals that if it were up to the Florida governor, he’d get as far away from Disney as he can — on both coasts.
Responding to the latest amended complaint from the Bob Iger-run Disney, lawyers for DeSantis this week asserted that DeSantis and the secretary of Florida’s Department of Commerce don’t “enforce any of the laws at issue, so Disney lacks standing to sue them.”
Or, to cut through the legal-eze and go straight to populist soundbite decrying the now-First Amendment-focused action, DeSantis says the real point of the suit isn’t freedom of speech. Instead, he claims it’s a “last-ditch effort” by Disney “to reinstate its corporate kingdom” in the Sunshine State.
Read DeSantis’ response to Disney’s 2nd amended complaint filed Thursday.
Echoing a filing Thursday by defendants from the February-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, Florida’s Attorney General once again is angling for DeSantis to get the “meritless” matter dismissed. Failing that, they want the courts to “at minimum, dismiss all claims against the State Defendants.”
Contacted by Deadline today, the Disney had no comment on this fresh jab in the bare-knuckles legal brawl between themselves and MAGA-man DeSantis.
Not that the intentions of the Disney World’s parent company are altogether unknown.
Initially, Disney sued the vehemently “anti-woke” DeSantis, officials from his administration and the CFTOD Board in April, claiming they’d violated the company’s First Amendment rights by retaliating against its eventual opposition to a parental rights law, also known as the “don’t say gay” bill.
Canal+ Chairman and CEO Maxime Saada has recalled how he travelled to Los Gatos with an olive branch six years ago.
Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright were seen out of their usual glam habitat as they donned hi-vis for what they described as an 'incredible experience'. The former Coronation Street actress and ex-The Only Way Is Essex star spent their Sunday morning (October 15) greeting almost 200 children with a serious illness or disability ahead of a charity-funded holiday-of-a-lifetime in Florida.
Jon Burlingame When directors Dan Abraham and Trent Corey were preparing “Once Upon a Studio,” their animated tribute to 100 years of Disney animation, they knew they wanted two musical elements: Cliff Edwards, as Jiminy Cricket, singing “When You Wish Upon a Star,” and songwriter Richard Sherman playing piano for “Feed the Birds.” Those two songs are emblematic of Walt Disney’s commitment to memorable, meaningful tunes as part of every Disney project dating back to the early Mickey Mouse days and the “Silly Symphonies” cartoon series. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” the Oscar-winning song from 1940’s “Pinocchio,” has become the studio’s unofficial musical signature, and “Feed the Birds,” from 1964’s “Mary Poppins,” was Disney’s personal favorite.
Disney is raising select prices at its theme parks as it prepares to embark on a long-term expansion of its parks and resorts portfolio.
expanded “Don’t Say Gay” law.Charlotte County Schools Superintendent Mark Vianello and Michael McKinley, the attorney for the Charlotte County Schools, recently responded to questions from the district’s librarians at a July meeting asking whether the law required the removal of books with LGBTQ characters but contained no explicit sex scenes.“Books with LBGTQ+ characters are not to be included in classroom libraries or school library media centers,” Vianello and McKinley said in response, according to a district memo obtained under a public information request by the Florida Freedom to Read Project.The nonprofit group, which opposes the law’s provisions making it easier to challenge or remove books from schools, provided the memo to The Associated Press last week.After receiving negative press, the district backed off slightly from an across-the-board ban, clarifying that it primarily applied to elementary and middle schools.The district said that high school libraries could keep non-explicit books with LGBTQ characters and themes in their collections, but could not use any of those books in classroom instruction, according to the investigative journalism website Popular Information.The expansion of the “Parental Rights in Education” law — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by critics — passed earlier this year after conservatives said the original 2022 law didn’t go far enough in stopping LGBTQ-themed materials from being accessed by minors.Under the new restrictions, the ban on LGBTQ content was applied to all grades — except in rare instances for some high school biology or health classes.The law also allows any county resident — regardless of whether they have children enrolled in school — to demand the removal of books
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Mum of 22 Sue Radford poked fun at the amount of holidays the bumper brood have, as she showed her 517k Instagram followers her most recent luxurious motorhome trip away. Sue, 48, and her husband Noel, 52, plus the children have not long returned from a motorhome holiday and are right back at it, taking advantage of paying £40,000 for the vehicle. No doubt more bike rides and hot chocolates are planned for the adventurous family just like their last trip, but for now, Sue is happy to be settled at their destination.
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“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year.
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Donald Trump once again is skipping the second Republican presidential debate, but his presence was apparent at the venue, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
WTF” podcast recently and revealed “Community” wasn’t “funny enough” for him.When Maron, 59, mentioned the 2009 series, Chase replied: “Oh. I kinda forgot about that.”“They wanted me. So I said, ‘OK,’ ” Chase said about the show’s bigwigs.“I felt the show wasn’t funny enough for me, ultimately,” the comedian went on.
22 Kids and Counting star Sue Radford has packed her bags and taken off on yet another trip, just a matter of days after her daughter Millie gave birth to her third child with her mum by her side as they put their long-running feud to bed.
For the average family, getting away on holiday is a massive expense and a luxury lots can't afford, but for Britain's biggest family, the Radfords - complete with 22 kids - it's a regular event. Sue Radford, mum of the 22, and her husband Noel whisked their children away for an action-packed and fun-filled weekend in a luxury £40,000 motorhome - affectionately known to the family as Betsy.The time away for the large family, who boast 517k followers on Instagram, is the 19th holiday they've enjoyed in less than two years.They've also recently enjoyed making family memories on a usually once-in-a-lifetime holiday in Florida, which at the time was their 18th holiday in 20 months.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom will debate on November 30 at a Georgia location, with Fox News’ host Sean Hannity moderating the event.
Sue Radford, famously known for being a mum-of-22, has headed off on a family trip in her £40,000 motorhome after her daughter Millie gave birth to her third baby.This means that the mum now has ten grandkids, and is celebrating in style with a trip off in the swanky family motorhome with some of her many children. Millie confirmed the safe arrival of her newborn in a post on Instagram, showing a slideshow of snaps from the birth - including mum Sue next to the birthing pool in the delivery room.
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