Sandy Hook lawsuits in opposition to Alex Jones on monitor to renew

The Sandy Hook households’ lawsuits in opposition to Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown faculty taking pictures in Connecticut a hoax seem poised to resume quickly

ByThe Related Press

13 Might 2022, 21:02

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VICTORIA, Texas -- The Sandy Hook families' lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown college shooting a hoax appear poised to resume quickly, based mostly on agreements revealed Friday within the bankruptcy cases of a few of Jones' firms.

The bankruptcy filings of Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Health last month delayed the lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut. Jones has already lost the defamation lawsuits, and the filings came per week before a jury in Texas was set to start considering how a lot money Jones ought to pay the families of victims within the Sandy Hook Elementary College capturing.

On Friday, attorneys in the bankruptcy case said the families shall be eliminated as collectors, and Infowars and Jail Planet TV can be removed as defendants within the Texas and Connecticut defamation cases.

The state cases would then proceed against Jones and his largest money-making company, Free Speech Programs, neither of which filed for bankruptcy. It was not immediately clear when those instances will resume.

The lawyers' feedback got here throughout a listening to in U.S. Bankruptcy Court docket in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' corporations, mentioned the bankruptcy case will proceed because they have other creditors.

A listening to, nonetheless, stays scheduled for Might 27 on whether or not the chapter case must be dismissed. The Sandy Hook families have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they have been meant solely to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones' lawyers deny.

The taking pictures at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 kids and six educators.

The households of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to high school sued Jones, Infowars and others, saying they have been subjected to harassment and dying threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since said he believes the taking pictures did occur.