The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had ...

The lawsuit claimed Moana copied the screenplay of Woodall's "Bucky the Surfer Boy," which revolves around a boy who goes on ...

Lawyers for a New Mexico writer and animator will say at closing arguments at his federal trial in Los Angeles on Monday that ...

Buck Woodall wrote a script, whose various titles have included “Bucky the Surfer Boy," about a teenager vacationing in Hawaii with his parents who befriends a group of Native Hawaiian youth and ...

A jury has determined that Moana creators knew nothing about a fellow Hawaii set & Polynesian demigods featuring idea & did ...

A jury sided with Disney, rejecting claims that "Moana" was based on Buck Woodall’s story. Here's what we know.

Woodall’s attorney said that a long chain of circumstantial evidence and similarities so numerous they can’t be coincidences make it clear that his story “Bucky the Surfer Boy” was the ...

Woodall's attorney said that a long chain of circumstantial evidence and similarities so numerous they can't be coincidences make it clear that his story "Bucky the Surfer Boy" was the basis for ...