Court slashes $50M judgment against Infowars’ Alex Jones over falsely calling school shooting a hoax
The court said the parents did not prove harassment justified damages above Texas’s $750,000 cap per defendant.
- On Friday, a Texas appeals court reduced a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to $1.5 million over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
- Parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis sued Jones after he falsely claimed the Newtown, Connecticut massacre was a government hoax, killing their 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis among 20 children and six educators in 2012.
- The Texas Third Court unanimously ruled that Heslin and Lewis failed to show harassment evidence exceeding the state's $750,000 damage cap. Defense attorney Andino Reynal had predicted shortly after trial he could reduce it to $1.5 million.
- A separate $1.4 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut remains unaffected by this ruling, while his company, Free Speech Systems, continues navigating ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.
- The 2022 verdict established the first time Jones was held financially liable for peddling lies about the massacre, setting legal precedent that persists despite the Texas reduction and ongoing bankruptcy asset distribution proceedings.
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Court cuts $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment to about $6 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones after he falsely claimed the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting was a hoax.
‘Gigantic victory’: Appeals court slashes Alex Jones’ $50 million Sandy Hook judgment by huge percentage * WorldNetDaily * by Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit
Ruling says parents should not have been allowed to exceed Texas' strict statutory cap on punitive damages
Alex Jones gets Sandy Hook family’s Texas verdict reduced on appeal
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones won an appeal in one family's defamation lawsuit over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax, reducing the judgment against him from $50 million ...
Texas Appeals Court Slashes Alex Jones’ $50 Million Sandy Hook Judgment by More Than $43 Million * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft
A Texas appeals court on Friday delivered a significant victory to Infowars founder Alex Jones, drastically reducing the massive $50 million judgment against…
Santa Maria Times
Independent EspañolAUSTIN, Texas, U.S.A. (AP) — A Texas court reduced Friday from $50 million to about $6 million the amount Alex Jones will have to pay for defaming victims’ families by saying that the massacre...
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