 After months of back-and-forth deliberation between the two parties, U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald dismissed the infringement claims on November 8, 2017.As stated in the final review, "...Goldman's effort to make the plots of "Looney" and "Zootopia" seem similar were strained.All the purported similarities between the two works were themes, not plot points or sequences of events, that were too general to be protected by copyright law."