Posted on 10/01/2021 1:12:51 PM PDT by Coronal
Oct 1 (Reuters) - Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and founder of the right-wing website Infowars, has been found liable for damages in a trio of defamation lawsuits filed after he falsely claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a "hoax."
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in state court in Austin, Texas, ruled that Jones repeatedly failed to comply with court orders to hand over documents to the parents of children killed in the attack.
Jones claimed the shooting, in which 20 children and six school employees were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was fabricated by gun-control advocates and mainstream media.
In response, several parents sued Jones and Infowars, as well as its parent company, for defamation in both Texas and Connecticut. Infowars is based in Texas.
In a deposition linked to one of the suits, Jones eventually acknowledged the massacre had occurred, though he denied wronging the children's parents.
Last year, Jones and Infowars were ordered by a different Texas judge to pay more than $100,000 in court costs and legal fees in one of the cases.
In her ruling this week, Gamble wrote that Jones had engaged in a "consistent pattern of discovery abuse" in numerous cases stemming from the shooting.
Gamble's decision means the defendants will have to pay a still-undetermined amount of damages to the parents of two six-year-old boys killed in the shooting. Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose son Noah died, filed one lawsuit, while the other two lawsuits were brought by Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose son Jesse died.
In a statement, Jones and an attorney for Infowars, Norm Pattis, called the decision "stunning."
"We are distressed by what we regard as a blatant abuse of discretion by the trial court," the statement said.
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Good.
He’s a retarded jackass.
Ok so Jones is a head case but how were the parents defamed?
Alex Jones in a nutcase. End story.
Stupidity should have consequences.
He claimed that the whole thing was a hoax, thereby calling the parents liars.
Agreed.....+1
But where we get our “male vitality” drugs from?
Agree- if you read the story he lost because he would not hand over documents to the parents.
Alex Jones be damned but i hope places such as Judicial Watch, Project Veritas, etc that are continually defamed by the left are sued for zillions.
It was a default judgment for failure to comply with discovery. Arguably, it’s an abuse of judicial discretion to impose this remedy.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21074088-heslin-judgment
Regardless of what you think about Jones, this “judge” is a Democrat activist clown.
https://www.mayaguerragamble.com/
Claiming that the deaths were faked basically states that the parents were lying when they said their children were killed. That's defamation in anyone's book.
Exactly! Crazy is one thing....being sued for being crazy is another. These are the same pigs who claimed that Remington owed them about $100 billion.
He accused them of being conspirators in his nutcase "Sandy Hook Coverup" claims. He claimed they were part of a conspiracy to fake the deaths of their children in a mass shooting and used his media outlet to profit from the "story". He is an absolute scumbag, and deserves to be bankrupted. Eventually he will burn in hell for his evil.
This goes to another court or is that it?
Not in my book.
Not in my book.
Not in my book.
Sorry,no sale. Crazy is no reason to sue.
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