Alex Jones again on the hook for damages after bankruptcy judge sends Sandy Hook cases to Texas court docket
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2022-05-21 10:59:17
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NEWTOWN — A federal chapter choose has launched extremist Alex Jones from Chapter 11 safety and despatched his defamation cases again to state court docket in Texas, the place the mother and father of two boys slain within the Sandy Hook massacre await jury trials to see how much Jones should pay them.
“(We) are relieved however not shocked that Mr. Jones’ newest stunt has failed like all the others,” stated Mark Bankston, an legal professional representing 4 parents who won two defamation instances against Jones in Texas final yr. “Mr. Jones will now be held to account in a Travis County courtroom in the coming weeks, and these households will lastly have the closure and recompense they deserve.”
Bankston was referring to a month-long saga in Texas bankruptcy court where three Jones-controlled entities filed for Chapter 11 protection one week before a jury trial was to start to find out what damages Jones owed two dad and mom he defamed when he known as the worst crime in Connecticut history “staged,” “synthetic,” “manufactured,” “a large hoax,” and “utterly fake with actors.”
The chapter choose’s ruling means the primary postponed defamation awards trial in Texas might begin as quickly as June, Bankston advised.
Among the disclosures that came out of the chapter court docket hearings is that Jones has suffered financially because the Sandy Hook defamation instances have progressed. Jones has spent not less than $10 million on authorized charges and has misplaced not less than $20 million, his representatives stated in court docket. Jones didn't file for bankruptcy safety himself, his representative said in courtroom, because he feared it would damage his brand within the conspiracy theory market.
Meanwhile in Connecticut, where an FBI agent and eight households who lost family members in the bloodbath of 26 first-graders and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School also received a defamation case in opposition to Jones in 2021, a hearing was deliberate in Connecticut chapter court docket on Tuesday that's anticipated to end in an analogous outcome because the Texas cases.
The reason has to do with a maneuver the Sandy Hook families took right here and in Texas to outflank Jones in chapter court.
Jones’ Chapter 11 submitting put on hold the 2 trials in Texas and the third deliberate in Connecticut, since federal court trumps state proceedings. Legal professionals for households right here and in Texas fought Jones’ Chapter 11 petitions as “dangerous religion” filings, since Jones himself and his money-making Free Speech systems didn't file for chapter. The three Jones-controlled entities that sought Chapter 11 protection have a combined month-to-month revenue of $38,000 while Jones himself made at the least $76 million in 2019, his representatives mentioned in courtroom.
In response, the households dropped Jones’ three business entities in bankruptcy from their lawsuits. As a result of the families no longer had a stake within the bankruptcies, they argued, their lawsuits against Jones and Free Speech methods may very well be launched back to the state courts for trial. The households argued that their goal was Jones himself and Free Speech Techniques, who weren't party to the bankruptcies.
In rulings on Thursday and Friday, the federal chapter courtroom in Texas agreed.
It stays to be seen whether Connecticut bankruptcy court docket will rule equally. The trial to award defamation damages to the Sandy Hook households in Connecticut had been scheduled for August.
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