Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Alex Jones asks CT’s Court to overturn $1.4 billion award

Attorneys for bankrupted conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones asked the state's highest court to rescue the embattled media figure from $1.4 billion in defamation damages a jury awarded to Sandy Hook families after a 2022 trial in Connecticut.

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... "(T)he trial court entered 'death penalty sanctions' judicially decreeing Jones liable to all (Sandy Hook families who sued him) for all claims," Jones' attorney, Jay Wolman, says in a petition to the Connecticut Supreme Court last week. "Jones is a media defendant (and) (a)s such, he was entitled to all protections afforded media defendants by the constitutions."

By "death penalty sanctions" Jones' attorney is referring to a default ruling issued by state Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis in 2021 against Jones for failing to comply with her orders during the pretrial phase to turn over his company's financial material to lawyers for Sandy Hook families.

Jones was similarly sanctioned by a trial court judge in Texas, where two parents of a slain Sandy Hook boy were awarded $49 million after a 2022 defamation awards trial. Jones is appealing that court ruling as well. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-29 09:31 PM

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