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DeSantis vows to appeal court decision that keeps CDC cruise rules in place
The state of Florida’s battle with the cruise industry is far from over.
Ten minutes before cruise safety regulations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were set to turn into recommendations for Florida cruises on Saturday at midnight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit intervened to keep them in place in a 2-1 decision. Now Governor Ron DeSantis said Monday that the state plans to appeal that ruling to the full panel of appeals court judges in hopes of allowing cruises to operate from Florida ports free of CDC oversight.
The ruling is the latest in a series of whiplash-inducing court decisions as the cruise industry tries to regain consumer confidence. It reverses last month’s decision from U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday of the Middle District of Florida, that said the CDC did not sufficiently justify the need for its cruise safety regulations that are causing the state “economic harm.”
“One of the reasons why we [sued the CDC] was not just it’s an important industry for our state,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Poinciana on Monday. “We’re committed to that, but it raises a bigger question. Can you just have one agency and the government, without Congress ever passing a law, just basically shutting down an industry? Maybe you don’t care about the cruise industry, but next time it might be your industry.”
...In a separate lawsuit, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is suing Florida’s surgeon general Scott Rivkees, asking a federal judge in Miami to allow the company to require cruise passengers show proof of COVID-19 vaccination despite a recently passed state law that bars it from doing so. The company argues that the law violates its First Amendment right to freedom of speech and disrupts interstate commerce, traditionally regulated by Congress....
Ten minutes before cruise safety regulations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were set to turn into recommendations for Florida cruises on Saturday at midnight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit intervened to keep them in place in a 2-1 decision. Now Governor Ron DeSantis said Monday that the state plans to appeal that ruling to the full panel of appeals court judges in hopes of allowing cruises to operate from Florida ports free of CDC oversight.
The ruling is the latest in a series of whiplash-inducing court decisions as the cruise industry tries to regain consumer confidence. It reverses last month’s decision from U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday of the Middle District of Florida, that said the CDC did not sufficiently justify the need for its cruise safety regulations that are causing the state “economic harm.”
“One of the reasons why we [sued the CDC] was not just it’s an important industry for our state,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Poinciana on Monday. “We’re committed to that, but it raises a bigger question. Can you just have one agency and the government, without Congress ever passing a law, just basically shutting down an industry? Maybe you don’t care about the cruise industry, but next time it might be your industry.”
...In a separate lawsuit, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is suing Florida’s surgeon general Scott Rivkees, asking a federal judge in Miami to allow the company to require cruise passengers show proof of COVID-19 vaccination despite a recently passed state law that bars it from doing so. The company argues that the law violates its First Amendment right to freedom of speech and disrupts interstate commerce, traditionally regulated by Congress....
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article252877768.html
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