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To: LydiaLong

I read an article years ago in the ABA magazine about Disney’s stranglehold on lawsuits. Basically their first tactic is to make sure the lawsuit is held in Orlando, where the incident happened. Next they always have a jury trial and it is impossible to seat a jury without most jurors either working or knowing someone who works for Disney, or the tourism industry that is greatly benefited by Disney’s presence. Then it is a simple matter of getting them to realize how their bread is buttered.


45 posted on 06/15/2016 7:00:52 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: sportutegrl

WDW has it’s own governmental system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_District

The Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) is the immediate governing jurisdiction for the land of the Walt Disney World Resort. As of the late 1990s, it comprised an area of 38.6 sq mi (100 km2) within the outer limits of Orange and Osceola counties in Florida. The RCID includes the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, and unincorporated RCID land.

A five-member Board of Supervisors governs the District, elected by the landowners of the District.[citation needed] These members, senior employees of The Walt Disney Company, each own undeveloped five-acre (20,235 m²) lots of land within the District, the only land in the District not technically controlled by Disney or used for public road purposes. The only residents of the District, also Disney employees or their immediate family members, live in two small communities, one in each city. In the 2000 census, Bay Lake had 23 residents, all in the community on the north shore of Bay Lake, and Lake Buena Vista had 16 residents, all in the community about a mile north of Disney Springs.[citation needed] These residents elect the officials of the cities, but since they don’t actually own any land, they don’t have any power in electing the District Board of Supervisors.


50 posted on 06/15/2016 7:46:16 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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