A jury in Los Angeles found that an animator’s claim that Disney stole the idea for Moana from him has no basis.

On Monday, March 10, multiple outlets reported that a federal jury in L.A. needed only two and a half hours of deliberation before it concluded that the creators behind Disney’s 2016 animated hit Moana “never had access to” the outlines and scripts for a story titled Bucky, which animator Buck Woodall previously alleged were stolen from him.

Woodall previously alleged that Jenny Marchick — DreamWorks Animation’s head of development for feature films who previously worked in relation with Disney at Mandeville Films on Disney’s property in Burbank, Calif. in the 2000s — shared Woodall’s materials for the project with Disney.

According to multiple outlets, the eight-member jury in L.A. found unanimously that Disney never had access to Woodall’s 2011 screenplay or earlier treatments of the film; Marchick testified during the trial that she never showed Woodall’s work to anyone at Disney and messages exhibited by Disney’s defense team showed she ignored Woodall’s outreach to her regarding Bucky as the years went on, according to the Associated Press.

Per Variety, jurors did not have to address whether Moana and Bucky were similar because they ruled that Moana‘s filmmakers did not have access to Bucky‘s script.

John Musker, one of Moana‘s filmmakers, testified during the trial that he and collaborator Ron Clements drew on inspiration from other Disney movies they worked on like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules; per THR, jurors were shown scenes from those movies as Disney’s attorneys argued that the ideas Woodall alleged were stolen from him “can be found in most works from Musker and Clements.” 

Following the jury’s ruling, Woodall’s attorney Gustavo Lage told reporters, “Obviously we’re disappointed. We’re going to review our options and think about the best path forward,” per the AP.

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“We are incredibly proud of the collective work that went into the making of Moana and are pleased that the jury found it had nothing to do with the Plaintiff’s works,” a Disney spokesperson told multiple outlets in a statement.

Woodall filed his lawsuit on Jan. 10 after a court separately ruled in November 2024 that Disney did not need to face another copyright lawsuit he had filed over Moana because he sued too long after the film’s release, as The Hollywood Reporter reported at the time. Moana 2‘s release in November 2024 enabled him to file the January lawsuit, in which he alleged that Moana 2 further utilized elements from his own screenplay. Per Variety, Woodall’s suit in relation to Moana 2 remains pending.

PEOPLE has reached out to Disney and Woodall’s attorney Gustavo Lage for comment on the ruling.