Arguing that a new law and executive order would “devastate Florida’s commercial reptile industry,” a trade organization and business owners are challenging the constitutionality of state decisions that would largely prevent the possession, breeding and sale of certain types of nonnative reptiles.

The United States Association of Reptile Keepers’ Florida Chapter and six individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit last week in Leon County circuit court challenging the constitutionality of a law that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed June 29 and an executive order issued the next day by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Executive Director Eric Sutton.

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