Guests walk on Main Street, U.S.A., in front of Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World on Sept. 30, 2020. - Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS
ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker on Thursday disqualified himself from presiding over the court battle between the Walt Disney Company and Gov. Ron DeSantis, but for different reasons than stated in a motion by DeSantis’ legal team that Walker called “nothing more than rank judge-shopping.” Lawyers for the governor filed a motion for Walker’s disqualification last month claiming that in another case, the judge asked questions that suggested bias in favor of Disney. The entertainment giant filed a federal lawsuit against DeSantis, accusing him of retaliating against the compan...
