Breaking: Federal judge dismisses Disney's lawsuit against Santis and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.

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Chris Geidner
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Breaking: Federal judge dismisses Disney's lawsuit against Santis and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.463456/gov.uscourts.flnd.463456.114.0.pdf



U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor, a Trump appointee, based his decision on 11th Circuit precedent that “courts shouldn’t look to a law’s legislative history to find an illegitimate motivation for an otherwise constitutional statute.” Thus, it didn't matter if it was retaliation.

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1. Bought and paid for handmaid

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2. So a state could, say, change a tax rate on amusement parks based on its speech?

As long as the law itself doesn't say it's retaliation.

It's constitutional to have a 3% tax on amusement parks. And it's constitutional to have a 60% tax on amusement parks. And apparently it's constitutional to switch between them for an unconstitutional purpose.

Okayyyy.