Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones on monitor to resume

The Sandy Hook households’ lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown faculty capturing in Connecticut a hoax appear poised to renew soon

ByThe Related Press

13 May 2022, 21:02

• 2 min read

VICTORIA, Texas -- The Sandy Hook households' lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown faculty taking pictures a hoax appear poised to renew quickly, primarily based on agreements revealed Friday in the bankruptcy circumstances of a few of Jones' corporations.

The chapter 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 earlier than a jury in Texas was set to start contemplating how a lot cash Jones should pay the families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary College shooting.

On Friday, lawyers in the chapter case said the families shall be removed as collectors, and Infowars and Prison Planet TV might be removed as defendants in the Texas and Connecticut defamation instances.

The state instances would then proceed towards Jones and his largest money-making firm, Free Speech Systems, neither of which filed for chapter. It was not immediately clear when these instances will resume.

The lawyers' comments came throughout a listening to in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' corporations, said the chapter case will continue as a result of they have other collectors.

A listening to, nonetheless, remains scheduled for May 27 on whether the bankruptcy case ought to be dismissed. The Sandy Hook families have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they have been meant only to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones' legal professionals deny.

The capturing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 children and six educators.

The families of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to school sued Jones, Infowars and others, saying they've been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers due to the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since said he believes the shooting did occur.