Sandy Hook lawsuits towards Alex Jones on monitor to resume

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

ByThe Associated Press

13 May 2022, 21:02

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

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

On Friday, legal professionals in the bankruptcy case said the families will be removed as creditors, and Infowars and Prison Planet TV can be removed as defendants in the Texas and Connecticut defamation circumstances.

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

The legal professionals' comments got here throughout a hearing in U.S. Chapter Court docket in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' corporations, mentioned the chapter case will continue as a result of they have other creditors.

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

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

The households 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 dying threats from Jones’ followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since mentioned he believes the taking pictures did occur.