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U.S. ARE DEALING WITH ON THIS FIRST OFFICIAL DAY OF SUMMER. BUT FIRST, DISNEY IS DEALING WITH A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FROM SOME CAST MEMBERS WHO SAY THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO MOVE TO FLORIDA. THOSE EMPLOYEES CAME HERE FROM CALIFORNIA. WESH 2S BOB HAZEN REPORTS. THIS ALL CENTERS ON THE CANCELED PLANS FOR A LAKE NONA CAMPUS. TWO PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR DISNEY FILED THAT LAWSUIT. THEY SAY THAT THEY WERE TOLD THINGS THAT SIMPLY WERE NOT TRUE. TO CONVINCE THEM TO MAKE THE MOVE FROM CALIFORNIA TO FLORIDA. NOW, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE TEAM THAT WOULD HAVE WORKED AT DISNEYS LAKE NONA CAMPUS. THAT WAS A HUGE PROJECT THAT WAS ANNOUNCED IN 2021. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BRING 2000 HIGH PAYING JOBS TO CENTRAL FLORIDA, BUT IN MAY OF LAST YEAR, DISNEY SAID IT WAS CANCELING THE PLANS BECAUSE OF WHAT IT CALLED CHANGING BUSINESS CONDITIONS. TWO EMPLOYEES, ONES A VICE PRESIDENT, THE OTHER A CREATIVE DIRECTOR ARE NOW SUING. THEY HAD BEEN WORKING IN CALIFORNIA, AND THEY WORRIED THAT THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR JOBS IF THEY DIDNT MAKE THE MOVE TO FLORIDA. SO THEY SOLD THEIR HOUSES IN CALIFORNIA FOR ONE OF THEM. IT WAS A FAMILY HOME THAT HED GROWN UP IN AND INHERITED. THEY BOUGHT NEW HOMES HERE BEFORE FINDING OUT THE LAKE NONA CAMPUS WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. FEARING THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR JOBS, THEY SOLD THEIR HOUSES HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA AND MOVED BACK TO CALIFORNIA. BUT THE LAWSUIT SAYS, QUOTE, HOME PRICES IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA HAD INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY BETWEEN THE SUMMER OF 2022 AND THE SUMMER OF 2023. MORTGAGE RATES HAD ALSO INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE PLAINTIFFS TO OBTAIN HOUSING COMPARABLE TO THE HOMES THAT THEY HAD SOLD. THEY WANT TO MAKE THIS A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE WHO MADE THAT SAME MOVE FROM CALIFORNIA TO FLORIDA, WE DID REACH OUT TO DISNEY FOR COMMENT ON THE LAWSUIT, BUT HAVE NOT HEARD BACK YE