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PublishedJune 27, 2024
Judge halts collection of $50 million Alex Jones owes to Sandy Hook victims’ parents
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said Thursday a Texas judge's ruling that victim Jesse Lewis' family could start collecting on the settlement conflicts with federal bankruptcy law.
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PublishedJune 14, 2024
Alex Jones’ assets to be sold to help pay $1.5 billion Sandy Hook debt as company bankruptcy is thrown out
Judge Christopher Lopez approved converting Jones’ proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation, but threw out the attempted reorganization of his company Free Speech Systems.
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Sandy Hook Promise offers survivor experience, advice for moving forward after mass shooting
Nicole Hockley co-founded and is CEO of the nonprofit organization Sandy Hook Promise, which formed after the devastation of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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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 10, 2022
Alex Jones ordered to pay $473 million more to Sandy Hook families
Jurors had already ordered Jones to pay $965 million to compensate the families, bringing the total to $1.44 billion.
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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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PublishedSeptember 23, 2022
Jury sent home; Alex Jones testimony to continue next week
Lawyers in the Connecticut defamation trial of Alex Jones have agreed 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 massacre was a hoax.
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