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 taking pictures in Connecticut a hoax appear poised to renew quickly

ByThe Related 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 faculty shooting a hoax appear poised to resume quickly, based mostly on agreements revealed Friday in the chapter cases 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 lost the defamation lawsuits, and the filings came a week earlier than a jury in Texas was set to start considering how a lot money Jones should pay the families of victims within the Sandy Hook Elementary College taking pictures.

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

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

The lawyers' feedback came during a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones' corporations, said the chapter case will continue because they have other collectors.

A listening to, nevertheless, stays scheduled for May 27 on whether the chapter case ought to 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' lawyers deny.

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 kids 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've been subjected to harassment and demise threats from Jones’ followers due to the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since stated he believes the taking pictures did happen.