Alex Jones Is Liable for Damages After False Claims that Sandy Hook Shooting Was Hoax, Judge Rules
Published at : October 04, 2021
Alex Jones, the peddler of baseless, far-right conspiracy theories, was found liable for damages in three lawsuits surrounding his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook mass school shooting was a hoax.
The founder of Infowars was sued by the parents of two children killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people, including 20 children, were killed by a gunman. He was found liable after he failed to comply with the judge's order to hand over documents for discovery.
"They feel relieved," Bill Ogden, an attorney for the parents, tells PEOPLE. "It is a bit of closure finally to be able to say, 'What you did was wrong.' And what you did was defame my character. For years my clients had to relive the one experience no parent should ever have to live in the first place. On top of that they were called liars."
In Judge Maya Guerra Gamble's ruling, which was obtained by PEOPLE, she wrote that Jones' "discovery conduct in this case has shown fl
The founder of Infowars was sued by the parents of two children killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people, including 20 children, were killed by a gunman. He was found liable after he failed to comply with the judge's order to hand over documents for discovery.
"They feel relieved," Bill Ogden, an attorney for the parents, tells PEOPLE. "It is a bit of closure finally to be able to say, 'What you did was wrong.' And what you did was defame my character. For years my clients had to relive the one experience no parent should ever have to live in the first place. On top of that they were called liars."
In Judge Maya Guerra Gamble's ruling, which was obtained by PEOPLE, she wrote that Jones' "discovery conduct in this case has shown fl
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