The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for “Bucky the Surfer Boy.

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

Was “Moana” based on a boy named Bucky? Lawyers for a New Mexico writer and animator will say at closing arguments at his federal trial in Los Angeles on Monday that his work was stolen to create the Walt Disney Co.

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

Was “Moana” based on a boy named Bucky? An attorney for a man who alleges Disney's questing Polynesian princess was stolen from his work told jurors at a federal trial Monday 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 the hit 2016 animated film.