alex jones not showing up, facing fines up to half a mil+

[butters]

I am wondering if Jones upset them so much that they deliberately did it,especially since when informed they did not claim privilege.

i could hardly be surprised if they did, knowing they were defending the indefensible... but that would make them deliberately shitty lawyers... it's either that or they are REALLY actually shitty lawyers. either way, the truth got out and i'm glad.

 

[jaF0]

4 Million so far ......

Alex Jones Sandy Hook Trial: Jury Finds Jones Must Pay $4.1M For Defamation​

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.cnet.com.icoCNET|36 minutes ago
Parents of a 6-year-old child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre were seeking $150 million in damages after Jones for years claimed the shooting was a "hoax."


...

 

[butters]

4 Million so far ......

Alex Jones Sandy Hook Trial: Jury Finds Jones Must Pay $4.1M For Defamation​

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.cnet.com.icoCNET|36 minutes ago
Parents of a 6-year-old child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre were seeking $150 million in damages after Jones for years claimed the shooting was a "hoax."


...

On Thursday afternoon, the jury decided Jones must pay at least $4.1 million to the parents. Though the verdict, signed by 10 of the 12 jurors, is less than 3% of the compensation the parents were seeking, Jones may yet be ordered to pay more. On Friday, the jury will meet again to determine if Jones owes any of the $75 million in punative damage the Heslin and Lewis' lawyer has requested.

he said 'anything over $2M' would take infowars out. one can hope. I hope there are punitive damages.

 

[jaF0]

August 4, 2022 5:50 PM EDT

(AUSTIN, Texas) — A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, marking the first time the Infowars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was a hoax.

The Austin jury must still decide how much the Infowars host must pay in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators who were killed in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Connecticut.

The parents had sought at least $150 million in compensation for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Jones’ attorney asked the jury to limit damages to $8 — one dollar for each of the compensation charges they are considering — and Jones himself said any award over $2 million “would sink us.”


https://time.com/6203913/alex-jones-sandy-hook-damages/

 

[KeithD]

He made the parents' lives a living hell--and knew he was doing it. He should rot in prison and, yes, put out of business and forbidden ever to engage in that business again.

 

[pezzheaddazzler]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...pc=U531&cvid=fbdbcbcc01ba425ea20aa4bd1d25a996


why aren't people aren't arrested and brought to the court to comply when they've defied a court order to be there?

Then why weren't the rioters and looters in Los Angles in 2020 arrested and fined?
Ditto in Portland 2020 i can go on and on and on!

 

[butters]

Then why weren't the rioters and looters in Los Angles in 2020 arrested and fined?
Ditto in Portland 2020 i can go on and on and on!

oh, i'm sure you can. and it would all be as ill-informed and pointless as your post quoted here.

 

[butters]

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...8FAF77CE86E52F1C519A8FA&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
judge reminding jones he can't get away with lying to the jury. lovely.

 

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/w...pc=U531&cvid=1cfac9b7e75347c881103fa8f58c28e6

Gibson Dunn partner Theodore Boutrous, Jr. declared, "Alex Jones is not only a horrible person, he is the worst libel defendant and worst witness of all time."

The attorney who brought down Trump University, Tristan Snell wondered if today may now incentivize Jones to flip.

"Sure, Alex Jones probably has a malpractice claim against his lawyers for turning over all his phone data to opposing counsel — but first he’ll owe millions to the Sandy Hook families and then likely be indicted as part of the January 6 conspiracy, if he doesn’t flip first," he wrote.

those 2 years of text messages fell 'free and clear' into the hands of the prosecutors for the 10 families

2 years' worth

some interesting reading there for the DOJ?

 

[butters]

August 4, 2022 5:50 PM EDT

(AUSTIN, Texas) — A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, marking the first time the Infowars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was a hoax.

The Austin jury must still decide how much the Infowars host must pay in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators who were killed in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Connecticut.

The parents had sought at least $150 million in compensation for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Jones’ attorney asked the jury to limit damages to $8 — one dollar for each of the compensation charges they are considering — and Jones himself said any award over $2 million “would sink us.”


https://time.com/6203913/alex-jones-sandy-hook-damages/

$8
it's inconceivable this could have even been suggested

after the years of distress, fear, trauma, threats... there is no bottom to the scum pond he swims in

 

[butters]

boom!

jan 6th committee requests copies of jones' texts

 

[butters]

THE QUESTION​

Can Alex Jones appeal a verdict on grounds of ineffective counsel? ?

THE SOURCES​

• Chad Baruch, civil appellate lawyer with Dallas-based Johnston Tobey Baruch
• 6th Amendment, U.S. Constitution
• Cornell Law School
• Mississippi Bar

THE ANSWER​

No, Jones cannot appeal a verdict on grounds of ineffective counsel. Ineffective counsel is not grounds for an appeal in civil court; it is only viable in criminal cases.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...pc=U531&cvid=20bc613a91514f2cea523864eb62de61

lolololololololol

 

[phrodeau]

Then why weren't the rioters and looters in Los Angles in 2020 arrested and fined?
Ditto in Portland 2020 i can go on and on and on!

LA looters were arrested.
https://abc7.com/looting-protests-in-los-angeles-george-floyd-black-lives-matter/6391666/

Portland rioters arrested.
https://apnews.com/article/or-state-wire-racial-injustice-us-news-b9edb15e4b0fddeabe1aae672b54b186

I could go on and on.

 

[jaF0]

There may not be grounds for appeal, but there may be grounds for Bar action and a possible civil suit by AJ against counsel.

 

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...sedgntp&cvid=9bdafd52b9e34e58aa5cbfd6a510b5ed

The combined net worth of Jones and his media company Free Speech Systems — which filed for bankruptcy protection last week — is estimated between $135 million and $270 million, forensic economist Bernard Pettingill said during the Sandy Hook defamation trial against Jones.

The forensic economist also estimated Jones' personal net worth between $70 million to $140 million.

"You cant separate Alex Jones from the company — he is the company," Pettingill told the court.

 

[Pad_Foot]

YES !!! A second verdict !!
There is a GOD!!
49.2 million total.
Bury the bastard !!!!!!
Now, get the parents EVERY PENNY!!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-settlement-sandy-hook-verdict-b2138693.html

 

[butters]

YES !!! A second verdict !!
There is a GOD!!
49.2 million total.
Bury the bastard !!!!!!
Now, get the parents EVERY PENNY!!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-settlement-sandy-hook-verdict-b2138693.html

Jones now faces another trial in Texas brought by a different victim’s parents, and another in Connecticut for the families of eight of the other victims.

 

[butters]

"Hopefully Jones will be the first of many bloated, odious dominoes to fall, as we finally start to see some justice meted out for the many indignities inflicted on us over the past few years by terrible men"
https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/11/21/14/ryan%20coogan%20byline.png?quality=75&width=137&auto=webp
Ryan Coogan
1 day ago

 

[Dribble]

I will send my thoughts and prayers to his followers

 

[butters]

Bloomberg says the payments will likely be reduced after further litigation due to texas laws, but it shows how people are getting fed up with the lies and deliberate misinformation.

“Punitive damages are typically more of a bellwether or a barometer of where we are culturally; they are more iconic messages sending verdicts from the public to the defendant directly,” Jamie Abrams, law professor at American University, told Bloomberg Law. “And so, on that front, this trial is uniquely interesting, because it really is a political barometer of how much misinformation the public is willing to accept.”

Damage Caps​

In Texas, there are statutory limits on punitive damages, with a per-defendant cap of two times the amount of economic damages, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury—the latter part not to exceed $750,000.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...n-in-punitive-damages?sref=ExbtjcSG#xj4y7vzkg

 

[ChloeTzang]

I am wondering if Jones upset them so much that they deliberately did it,especially since when informed they did not claim privilege.

Could be. God know's he's infuriated, harrassed and annoyed a lot of people. I wouldn;t put it past him driving his lawyers insane too.

 

[jaF0]

There may not be grounds for appeal, but there may be grounds for Bar action and a possible civil suit by AJ against counsel.

Figgered the guy may end up losing lawyering ability .....

Alex Jones lawyer could face legal consequences for phone records release​

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.reuters.com.icoReuters|3 hours ago
The lawyer defending conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a Texas trial drew his own national headlines this week for accidentally handing over highly-sensitive data to his adversaries, opening him up to potential legal consequences.

 

[iso36]

Agreed, Jones lost the battle, but still wins the InfoWars.

Only in America can “entertainment” like his make people rich and famous.

 

[butters]

fox host trey gowdy rips into jones (even as jones calls himself the victim); much longer piece than quoted here:

Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina, was serving in Congress in 2012 when 20 children and six educators were gunned down at an elementary school in Connecticut.
He began his monologue by recounting the horror of the massacre from the perspective of the parents of its victims.

“And then a radio talk show host named Alex Jones tells his listeners it was a hoax,” Gowdy said. “Your child isn’t really dead. Your grief is an acting job. Your pain is manufactured.”

Gowdy continued:

For ten years a man deceive and lies. You know he’s lying, you saw your dead child’s body, you touched your dead child one final time, you planned the funeral, you picked out the child sized casket, you live with the anguish every waking moment but someone in a faraway state is heaping coals on your grief by denying the death and therefore denying the life of very thing that mattered most to you.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...pc=U531&cvid=d421e5dc04ef4092bcfa42d217756d63

 

[ll74]

I hate Gowdy.