Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones on track to resume

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

ByThe Associated Press

13 May 2022, 21:02

• 2 min read

VICTORIA, Texas -- The Sandy Hook households' lawsuits towards Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown college shooting a hoax appear poised to resume soon, primarily based on agreements revealed Friday within the chapter circumstances of a few of Jones' companies.

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 much money Jones ought to pay the households of victims within the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty taking pictures.

On Friday, lawyers in the chapter case stated the households shall be removed as collectors, and Infowars and Prison Planet TV will likely be eliminated as defendants within the Texas and Connecticut defamation instances.

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 instances will resume.

The attorneys' feedback got here throughout a listening to in U.S. Bankruptcy Courtroom in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' corporations, mentioned the bankruptcy case will continue as a result of they have other creditors.

A listening to, nonetheless, stays scheduled for Could 27 on whether the bankruptcy case should be dismissed. The Sandy Hook households have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they have been meant solely to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones' attorneys deny.

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

The families of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to high school sued Jones, Infowars and others, saying they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers due to the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since mentioned he believes the capturing did happen.