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

Buck Woodall’s five-year legal battle alleging copyright infringement against Disney’s Moana has come to an end—for now.

Animator Buck Woodall sued Disney in January and alleged that the company stole the idea for 'Moana' from a story he has been ...

Members of Krewe Du Pooch have announced that this year’s parade has been postponed due to an inclement weather threat.

Animator Buck Woodall continues to pursue a copyright trial over the sequel to the 2016 hit, though the jury's decision in ...

Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end, with a Los Angeles ...

A Los Angeles federal jury ruled on Monday that Disney did not steal the idea for its massive hit film “Moana” from animator ...

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Buck Woodall told the jury in downtown Los Angeles that he immediately recognized the characters from a "Bucky" project that he had shared more than 12 years earlier with his brother's sister-in-law, ...

Charged is 50-year-old Patrick Thompson a telephone engineer/ technician and resident of Levy Lane in Mandeville. He has been charged with two counts of murder and three counts of wounding with ...

Woodall claims that Disney's animated feature was based on a treatment he sent in 2003 to Jenny Marchick, the stepsister of his brother's wife, who worked at Mandeville Films at the time. That movie ...