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

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

ByThe Associated 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 school shooting a hoax appear poised to renew soon, based on agreements revealed Friday within the bankruptcy circumstances of a few of Jones' firms.

The bankruptcy filings of Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Well being final month delayed the lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut. Jones has already misplaced the defamation lawsuits, and the filings got here a week before a jury in Texas was set to begin considering how a lot money Jones ought to pay the households of victims within the Sandy Hook Elementary College shooting.

On Friday, lawyers within the bankruptcy case said the households shall be eliminated as collectors, and Infowars and Jail Planet TV will probably be removed as defendants in the Texas and Connecticut defamation cases.

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

The attorneys' feedback got here during a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Courtroom in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' firms, said the chapter case will proceed as a result of they produce other creditors.

A hearing, nevertheless, stays scheduled for May 27 on whether or not the chapter case must be dismissed. The Sandy Hook households have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they had been meant only to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones' attorneys deny.

The taking pictures at Sandy Hook Elementary College in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 youngsters and 6 educators.

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