Sandy Hook lawsuits towards Alex Jones on track to renew

The Sandy Hook families’ lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown college capturing in Connecticut a hoax seem poised to renew quickly

ByThe Associated Press

13 Might 2022, 21:02

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VICTORIA, Texas -- The Sandy Hook households' lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown college capturing a hoax appear poised to renew quickly, based mostly on agreements revealed Friday in the chapter circumstances of some 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 misplaced the defamation lawsuits, and the filings got here every week earlier than a jury in Texas was set to start considering how a lot money Jones ought to pay the families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty shooting.

On Friday, lawyers in the chapter case said the households can be removed as creditors, and Infowars and Prison Planet TV might be removed as defendants in the Texas and Connecticut defamation cases.

The state cases would then proceed towards Jones and his largest money-making firm, Free Speech Techniques, neither of which filed for bankruptcy. It was not instantly clear when those cases will resume.

The legal professionals' feedback got here during a listening to in U.S. Bankruptcy Court docket in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' companies, mentioned the chapter case will continue as a result of they produce other collectors.

A hearing, nevertheless, stays scheduled for Could 27 on whether the bankruptcy case must be dismissed. The Sandy Hook families have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they were meant solely to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones' legal professionals deny.

The capturing at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty 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 have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since said he believes the capturing did occur.