In addition to their federal lawsuit against Governor DeSantis and his appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board, Walt Disney World is now countersuing the Board at the state level.

After Disney filed their original federal lawsuit, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD) Board filed a counter state lawsuit.

Walt Disney World has now responded to CFTOD’s lawsuit in a 55-page filing, denying the District Board’s claims and countersuing them for Breach of Contract, violations of the Florida Constitution, and more. Disney asks the judge to declare Senate Bill 1604: Land Use and Development Regulations unconstitutional, or order that the District cannot enforce the bill.

One of Disney’s major arguments is that the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is more-or-less the same as the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID). When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis created his Board of Supervisors, he did not technically dissolve RCID as he originally intended, but just renamed the District.

Walt Disney World has put forth an estoppel against the CFTOD regarding the Development Agreement and Restrictive Covenants that the Board tried to declare null and void, arguing that because the District is the same and the 2023 District Charter created by the Florida Legislature stated previously existing RCID contracts were still valid, the CFTOD cannot void them.

Disney originally filed their federal lawsuit immediately after the CFTOD Board declared the agreements void.

An estoppel is a legal principle that prevents someone from asserting something contrary to a previous action they took or a statement they made.

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