He constructed a enterprise on red-faced ranting, which is protected by the First Modification, however he’s paying for defamation, which isn’t. Alex Jones used his speak present to unfold theories that the Sandy Hook bloodbath was a hoax perpetrated by actors. A Texas jury this month awarded Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the dad and mom of a slain 6-year-old, $49 million in damages.
That quantity may drop on judicial overview, however Mr. Jones additionally has been held liable in different Sandy Hook instances, which aren’t but on the damages stage. He has misplaced by default judgment, after failing to show over paperwork or adjust to the judicial course of. Certainly one of his corporations has filed for chapter. Mr. Jones’s response to this months’s jury, his lawyer stated, was that “the First Modification is beneath siege, and that he seems ahead to persevering with to combat.”
