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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…

UPDATE: The legal fight between The Walt Disney Co. and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is officially over. The company has dropped its appeal that challenged DeSantis’ moves to strip the company of control over a special district that covered its Florida theme park properties. A stipulation of…

Bob Iger took a victory lap Thursday morning, a day after Disney fended off activist investor Nelson Peltz in a fierce proxy battle. In an interview on CNBC, the CEO said the fight had one positive: getting the company in closer touch with investors as it lobbied hard for its board slate. He also said succ…

Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger touted as a “win-win” the recent settlement of litigation with the Ron DeSantis-appointed special district board that oversees the company’s Florida theme park properties. At the company shareholders meeting Wedenesday, Iger said that the settlement “will actually enable…

A special district board selected by Gov. Ron DeSantis that oversees The Walt Disney Co.’s Florida theme park properties settled its litigation with the company today. This deal in the long and bitter battle between the Mouse House and the failed GOP presidential contender comes just days before an…

The lines at Disney World may be long, but the Mouse House isn’t standing around to let Ron DeSantis savor his win yesterday in the company’s First Amendment lawsuit against the failed presidential candidate. Less than 24 hours after a federal judge agreed with the Florida Governor and deep-sixed…

Donald Trump can beat Ron DeSantis, but turns out the Walt Disney Company can't. A federal judge just dismissed the Bob Iger-run corporation's First Amendment lawsuit against the Florida governor and failed GOP presidential candidate. Related Stories …

Many other Republican candidates have suspending their campaigns this cycle, but Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ exit inspired some pretty biting and snarky reactions today, coming from other politicos and some celebrities. The reaction may be due to the fact that DeSantis focused so much of his…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, ending a faltering bid where he tried to cast himself as a Trump-like candidate in a race where so much of the Republican base ended up preferring the real thing. In a videotaped message posted this afternoon, DeSantis said…

California Governor Gavin Newsom weighed in on the presidential prospects of his Florida counterpart and frequent foe, Ron DeSantis, while declaring the race for the Republican nomination all but over. “DeSantis is toast,” Newsom said today at an event in Orange County. “That’s self evident. I don’t…

CNN has dropped plans to hold a New Hampshire Republican debate on Sunday, after former UN ambassador Nikki Haley said that she would only participate in the event if former President Donald Trump did. That left Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the only candidate who had committed to…

After tonight’s Iowa caucuses, networks are planning for a packed week of political events — but the events hinge on the race remaining one between former President Donald Trump and his two main rivals. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is scheduled to do a CNN town hall on Tuesday evening at New England…