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Court upholds $75,000 in fines against Alex Jones for missing Sandy Hook case deposition
A Connecticut appeals court on Friday upheld $75,000 in fines against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for missing a deposition in the lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, which led to a $1.4 billion judgment against Jones for repeatedly calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax.
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Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones' $1.5 billion legal debt for a minimum of $85 million
Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the dollar — at least $85 million over 10 years.
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Judge rules Alex Jones can't use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families
A Texas judge has ruled that Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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Judge Suspends Law License of Alex Jones' Attorney After Releasing Unauthorized Files
A judge has suspended the law license of Norm Pattis, Alex Jones’ attorney, for six months after he allegedly released unauthorized files related to a Sandy Hook defamation case.
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Judge Allows Sandy Hook Cases Against Alex Jones to Proceed
A federal bankruptcy judge is allowing cases to move forward regarding the nearly $1.5 billion that Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay Sandy Hook families.
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Infowars Host Alex Jones Files for Personal Bankruptcy
Infowars host Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Texas on Friday as he faces nearly $1.5 billion in court judgments over conspiracy theories he spread about the Sandy Hook school shooting.
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Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $473M More to Sandy Hook Families
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month.
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Alex Jones Seeks New Trial After $1B Sandy Hook Verdict
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, who say they were subjected to harassment and threats from Jones’ lies about the 2012 Newtown school shooting. Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis’ pretrial rulings…
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Sandy Hook Victim Families Speak Out After Verdict in Alex Jones Case
Family members of the victims in the 2012 shooting are reacting to the verdict saying they have been waiting nearly a decade for this outcome.
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Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million for Sandy Hook Conspiracies, Harassment
Infowars host Alex Jones was ordered to pay $965 million to law enforcement and families who were targeted by his lies about the Sandy Hook school shooting.
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Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Nearly $1 Billion in Sandy Hook Trial in Connecticut
Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965 million to people who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. The jury in Waterbury, Connecticut had been asked to decide how much money Infowars host Alex Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, should pay for spreading a conspiracy theory that the shooting at Sandy Hook…
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Jury Reaches $965 Million Verdict in Alex Jones' Trial
Jurors on Wednesday reached a verdict in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Connecticut defamation trial. The jury said Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Jones and his company were found liable for damages last year. The six-person jury is tasked with determining how much the Infowars show host…
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Jurors Deliberate For 2nd Full Day in Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Defamation Trial
A Connecticut jury deliberated Tuesday but has reached no verdict so far in its effort to decide on how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay for spreading the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was staged by “crisis actors.” The jurors ended their second full day of discussions by asking to revisit testimony Wednesday from William…
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What Jurors Are Weighing in Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Defamation Trial
A Connecticut jury is set to resume deliberations on how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company must pay victims’ families for calling the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School a hoax.
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Jury Begins Deliberations in Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Trial
A jury in Waterbury, Connecticut is expected to hear closing arguments Thursday in a trial to determine how much Infowars host Alex Jones should pay for persuading his audience that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax perpetrated to impose more gun control laws.
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Lawyer Says Alex Jones May Not Testify in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial Again
The father of a boy killed at the Sandy Hook elementary school tried Tuesday to describe for a jury the distress he felt when he learned conspiracy theorists planned to dig up his 7-year-old son’s grave to prove the mass shooting never happened. Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was among the 26 victims, was the final family member to testify…
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Families Testify of Confrontations With Sandy Hook Deniers
A mother who lost one of her sons in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre testified Tuesday that her biggest fear is that people who believe the shooting was a hoax will harm her other son, who survived the attack at his school. Nicole Hockley and her former husband, Ian Hockley, were the latest family members of the 26 victims of…
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Jury Sent Home; Alex Jones to Return to the Stand Next Week
Lawyers in the defamation trial of Alex Jones agreed Friday not to return him to the stand until next week after a contentious day of testimony Thursday about his promotion of the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. Jones lawyer, Norm Pattis, told the judge he would waive his right to cross-examine the Infowars host…
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Alex Jones Ends Contentious Day of Testimony in Sandy Hook Trial
Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his Connecticut defamation trial, acknowledging he had promoted the conspiracy theory that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, but angrily refusing to keep apologizing for that. More than a dozen relatives of the 26 shooting victims showed up to observe his often contentious testimony in Waterbury Superior Court, about 20 miles…
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Sandy Hook Families Testify About Threats, Fear of Deniers
Two parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre and the daughter of the school’s slain principal testified Wednesday of the fear and pain they have suffered from being targeted with threats by those who believe the lie that the shooting was a hoax. David Wheeler, Jennifer Hensel and Erica Lafferty are among those suing conspiracy theorist…