Posted on 10/21/2022 7:05:04 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Lawyers for Sandy Hook families, who were recently awarded a billion dollar compensatory judgment against radio host Alex Jones, are now seeking the “highest possible“ amount in punitive damages totaling $2.75 trillion in hopes to take Jones off the air forever.
The cartoonishly large amount, which supposedly factors in 550 million “social media exposures” that Infowars would have generated on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in the three years following the mass shooting and multiplies it by $5,000, was reported by Bloomberg News Friday.
Sandy Hook families asked a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay $2.75 trillion in damages in addition to the almost $1 billion a jury awarded for defamation, claiming only “the highest possible punitive damages,” will stop the Infowars host from continuing to harm them.
The families said they’re entitled to the amount because Jones broke a state law barring the sale of products using false statements. They reached the sum by multiplying the state law’s $5,000 per-violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones’s audience received on his Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts in the three years following a school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
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“Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason: greed,” the families’ lawyers said in the filing Friday. “Alex Jones will never treat them like real people, because they are too valuable to him as targets…”
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That makes sense. Thanks.
They always test things out on Alex Jones first.
I think they might be angry with him.
The Camp Lejeune attorneys are jealous.
Alex Jones has turned out to be correct on a lot of issues. I’m not sure he’s correct about all he said regarding Sandyhook, but there are a lot of problems with the official narrative. Of course now no one can question it without being sued to oblivion. I hope he gets a real day in court because he could get a jury to quickly see that the whole truth is not being told.
A sincere song for Alex Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruQsv709MA0
Save the Humans
A conspiracy theory to reality used to be years. Now it takes about six months.
Who knows in this situation.
However, I would hope the judgment against Jones will be overturned. These parents put themselves in front of the cameras with their very public grief and many became a part of the anti-gun movement. They suffered no real harm due to Jones’ rantings.
You may not agree with Jones’ words, but he had the right to say them if that is what he believed.
Trillions of dollars in damages? That is ludicrous!
If he had said “I think Sandy Hook was a hoax” he would have been fine. When he said Robbie Parker (one of the victims fathers) was acting when he was crying at a press conference, then Robbie Parker can sue.
?????
It’s still an opinion.
How is the father harmed by someone ‘s opinion?
Slow down, the Feds printers are already overheated keeping congress in spending money.
Let’s just introduce the $1 billion dollar bill. Maybe they can put Nancy’s picture on it.
The clips I have seen of Alex Jones at the “trial” are very entertaining.
The trial itself was, of course, a total joke. Jones didn’t kill anyone, the bad guy did.
And why such enormous “damages” if Jones is as the left describes him just a “nutcase who cannot be taken seriously”?
feh...
Jones is a questionable Botton feeder. That said, once again the so-called adults of the People’s Republic of Connecticut have brought shame to our nation by standing on the corpses of their children shrieking for money.
**** ‘em.
EXACTLY!
If they could give him the death penalty they would.
ROTFLMAO. Maybe somebody should look into this Sandy Hook BS. It’s getting ridiculous.
>> United States Jesters System
I like! I steal! :-)
It’s so apt.
Maybe we should just give them 250.7 Brazilians and call that good.
>> greed,” the families’ lawyers said
Hey, I trust lawyers to thoroughly understand greed...
For what it’s worth, I distantly (not distinctly) recall a 1977 law that was instituted to eliminate frivolous lawsuits seeking claims that could not be collected.
If a plaintiff received a settlement from the proceedings, say for example, $1 million and the defendant could only pay $2000, the IRS didn’t care, you were taxed for $1 mil.
This is why attorneys do asset searches to see if the claim for damages could expect to be paid. This is why plaintiffs look for deep pockets in a suit. This is due diligence by the attorney, and if the money just wasn’t there, regardless of the merits of the case, he would have to inform his potential client that they could not go to court.
If they case DID go tho trial, and the plaintiff theoretically “wins”, the lawyer doesn’t get paid and can be sued for legal malpractice.
So for me, I don’t know how much money AJ has, but let me guess, it’s NOT a billion trillion gazillion dollars, and these plaintiffs would rue the day they got a godzilla amount of not existent money.
I am NOT an attorney, and I believe this is correct, but if there is other info and someone out there knows better, please inform.
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