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(8,253 posts) Wed Jan 31, 2024, 04:20 PM Jan 31

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

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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Breaking: Federal judge dismisses Disney's lawsuit against Santis and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. (Original Post) In It to Win It Jan 31 OP

Bought and paid for handmaid Fullduplexxx Jan 31 #1

So a state could, say, change a tax rate on amusement parks based on its speech? unblock Jan 31 #2

Fullduplexxx

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1. Bought and paid for handmaid

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Wed Jan 31, 2024, 04:32 PM

Jan 31

unblock

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

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Wed Jan 31, 2024, 04:52 PM

Jan 31

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.

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