US EditionSupreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting
- On Oct. 14, the Supreme Court rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him, issuing the order without comment or seeking responses from families of Sandy Hook victims.
- After the 2012 shooting, Jones claimed it was a `staged event` on his shows, and families of Sandy Hook victims sued in Connecticut state court leading to a rare default ruling by the Connecticut judge.
- A Connecticut jury awarded $965 million in compensatory damages and $471.7 million in other damages to 15 family members and one FBI agent, assessing the verdict against Jones and Free Speech Systems, Infowars' parent company.
- The bankruptcy proceedings converted to a trustee-run Chapter 7 liquidation, and a bankruptcy judge later voided an auction that had named The Onion the winning bidder for Infowars' assets.
- The justices' order leaves Jones without further avenues to appeal, and he faces a nearly $50 million judgment in Texas, which his lawyers called `a financial death penalty`.
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Supreme Court rejects Jones’ judgment appeal
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged…
Because of his lies about a gun attack at a primary school, the U.S. conspirator Alex Jones has to pay billions.
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Alex Jones’s Sandy Hook Defamation Challenges
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from far right podcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was seeking an appeal of a $1.4 billion judgment against him after he lost a defamation lawsuit brought by family members of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting of 2012. Jones and his legal team submitted a writ of certiorari to the high court last week, arguing that his past… Source
The American plottist Alex Jones had filed a final appeal to the Supreme Court for denying a massacre in a school in 2012. He was finally dismissed this Tuesday. - Sandy Hook's murder in the United States: the heavy fine of the plottist Alex Jones confirmed by the court (International).
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