According to HuffPost, a judge found Infowars’ Alex Jones legally liable in two lawsuits for damages emerging from his allegations regarding the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012.
A judge issued default judgments toward Jones and his right-wing website for neglecting to comply with requests to present information for the lawsuits brought by parents of two children killed in the shooting.
These rulings conclusively indicate that Jones lost the cases by default, and now a jury will conclude how much he will have to pay the plaintiffs.
An attorney for the parents, Mark Bankston, said to CNN that the verdicts will accommodate his clients with “the closure they deserve.”
“Mr. Jones was given ample opportunity to take these lawsuits seriously and obey the rule of law. He chose not to do so, and now he will face the consequences for that decision,” Bankston said.
Jones did provide a statement on Infowars following the judge’s decision to hold him liable for these two suits.
“It takes no account of the tens of thousands of documents produced by the defendants, the hours spent sitting for depositions, and the various sworn statements filed in these cases,” the statement said. “We are distressed by what we regard as a blatant abuse of discretion by the trial court. We are determined to see that these cases are heard on the merits.”
Jones has falsely stated that the shooting at Sandy Hook was a lie brought by crisis actors and organized by adversaries of the Second Amendment.
However, in 2019, Jones confessed the shooting was an actual tragic event during a sworn oath he did as a component of a defamation suit instituted against him by Sandy Hook victims’ families.
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
