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PublishedDecember 16, 2023
Alex Jones offers to pay Sandy Hook families at least $55 million over school shooting hoax conspiracy
The families have filed a proposal seeking to liquidate nearly all of Jones' assets, including his media company Free Speech Systems, and give the proceeds to them and other creditors.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2023
Judge rules Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families
The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation's deadliest school shooting.
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PublishedOctober 1, 2023
Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since Sandy Hook
Immediately after it was passed, the law was challenged in court by gun rights supporters. Connecticut’s landmark 2013 gun law, passed in response to the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown that claimed 26 lives, is also being contested in court.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2023
Alex Jones spent over $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook families who sued him have yet to see a dime
Families won nearly $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones in lawsuits over repeated promotion of a false theory that the school shooting never happened.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2022
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones files for bankruptcy in face of $1.5 billion in damages
Jones faces court orders to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2022
Alex Jones’ lawyers argue against severe punitive damages for Sandy Hook lies
Under Connecticut law, Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis, who presided over the trial, will decide what the victims get in punitive damages after weighing wildly disparate arguments.
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PublishedNovember 4, 2022
Alex Jones trial moves to punitive damages phase
The Infowars host's lawyer, Norm Pattis, has asked the judge not to award any punitive damages under the Unfair Trade Practices Act.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2022
Alex Jones seeks new trial after Sandy Hook verdict
Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis' pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and 'a substantial miscarriage of justice.'
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PublishedOctober 13, 2022
Nearly $1 billion judgment against Alex Jones not the final word
Experts say the Sandy Hook families likely face a long fight ahead as they try to collect the $965 million awarded to them.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2022
No verdict yet from jury in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook trial
A Connecticut jury has yet to reach a verdict after its first full day of deliberations in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ defamation trial over his calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax
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