sterlling wrote:
Would it be fair to say that Disney has a much better (and larger) legal team than the WB and others have?

The Kirby case is a lot weaker than the Superman one over at WB but Disney's legal teams have had a strong rep for decades now.

I'd say not necessarily. Not only was the Kirby case much weaker than the Superman case, but it was tried in the management-friendly New York district court as opposed to Superman in the labor-friendly California court. There are those who say that Warner could have won the Superman case had it been tried in New York.