Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones on monitor to renew

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

ByThe Related Press

13 Could 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 faculty taking pictures a hoax appear poised to renew soon, based mostly on agreements revealed Friday in the bankruptcy instances of a few of Jones' corporations.

The bankruptcy filings of Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Health final month delayed the lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut. Jones has already misplaced the defamation lawsuits, and the filings got here every week before a jury in Texas was set to begin contemplating how a lot cash Jones ought to pay the families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary College capturing.

On Friday, legal professionals within the chapter case mentioned the families will be removed as collectors, and Infowars and Jail Planet TV will likely be eliminated as defendants in the Texas and Connecticut defamation instances.

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

The lawyers' feedback got here throughout a hearing in U.S. Chapter Court docket in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' firms, said the chapter case will proceed because they have other creditors.

A hearing, nevertheless, stays scheduled for May 27 on whether or not the bankruptcy case ought to be dismissed. The Sandy Hook families have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they had been meant solely to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones' legal professionals deny.

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary College in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 kids and six educators.

The households of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to high school sued Jones, Infowars and others, saying they've been subjected to harassment and dying threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since said he believes the taking pictures did happen.