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Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation litigation

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2026-08-24 15:27 UTC → 2026-08-24 16:45 UTC · added removed

A Texas appeals court unanimously has significantly reduced a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to $1.5 million. Jones. The court Texas Third Court of Appeals ruled that the original award exceeded must comply with state laws limiting punitive damages, slashing that portion from over $40 million to $1.5 million. This leaves approximately $6 million in total damages remaining in the state’s statutory cap of $750,000 state case, including more than $4.1 million in punitive compensatory damages per plaintiff. The case was brought by awarded to Sandy Hook parents of a victim Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis. While the court upheld the original finding of defamation regarding Jones’s false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who sought damages for defamation and emotional distress following Jones’s claims that the shooting massacre was a hoax. While hoax, Jones has called the Texas ruling significantly lowers the specific punitive portion of a “gigantic victory for the award, approximately $6 million in damages remains intact in First Amendment” and intends to appeal to the state case. Despite this reduction, Jones Supreme Court. Jones, who has left his Infowars platform and filed for bankruptcy through his company, Free Speech Systems, still faces more than $1 billion in total damages, including a $1.25 billion defamation judgment from a separate Connecticut lawsuit. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, have filed for bankruptcy as legal proceedings regarding To date, the liquidation families of assets continue. the Sandy Hook victims have not collected any funds from Jones.

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