The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday morning, further named the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared the suit at a news conference in Miami, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
The tens of thousands of Florida workers who depend on the industry have been unjustly hurt by the cruise ban, which has been in effect since March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, DeSantis, a Republican, announced.
"Today Florida is fighting back," he stated. "I don’t think the federal government has the right to mothball an industry for more than a year based on very little evidence and very little data,"
According to Florida Attorney General Ashley Mood, the suit confronts the government’s power.
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She announced the administration has not been willing to address how vaccinations and health protocols offered by the cruise lines have made the CDC’s ban on cruising outdated. The Miami Herald remarked that cruises in the U.S. were halted after COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths on many ships. The newspaper announced the cruise companies are currently working to comply with the second stage of the CDC’s "conditional sail order" — a framework to get the industry restarted which was first announced in October.
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Meanwhile, legal authorities told the Herald the lawsuit has limited odds of proceeding. The federal government has very wide control to regulate ports of entry, they said.
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"I think it’s got negligible liability approaching zero," stated Larry Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization’s center on global health law. "Under no circumstance could I see a judge striking down a regulation that applies to cruise ships and the safety of its passengers because its passengers are going to be introducing infectious diseases back into the U.S. if they get infected on the ship. The U.S. has a very strong interest and power to stop that."
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Late last month, DeSantis asked for the federal government to clear the way for cruise ships to begin sailing again by the summer.
Industry officials claim inaction by the federal government is keeping thousands of workers jobless and hurting Florida’s economy. "We’re the most crippled by what they are doing with this national cruise lockdown," remarked DeSantis. "If we get liberated from that, you are going to be able see maybe tens of thousands — maybe even a hundred thousand more people — going back to work."
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Cruise lines are already restarting cruises in Israel, Europe, and Singapore.
Florida is intending to fund about $260 million to aid ports in the state that have suffered losses during the pandemic. Though, DeSantis said that won’t be enough if ships can’t sail.
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