Texas court greenlights Sandy Hook defamation suits against Alex Jones

Defamation lawsuits filed against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones 
by the parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook 
massacre can now move forward following a ruling by the Texas 
Supreme Court.

The high court on Friday rejected Jones’ request to dismiss the 
four legal actions, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

The families sued Jones in Travis County, Texas, where his 
InfoWars media organization is based, after he pushed the bogus 
idea that the 2012 tragedy was a hoax, and that the grieving 
parents were crisis actors.

Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of 6-year-old 
Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner, and Scarlett Lewis and Neil 
Heslin, parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, brought three of the 
lawsuits.

They are seeking more than $3 million in combined damages. The 
mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school left 20 
children and six adults dead.

The fourth lawsuit was filed by Massachusetts man Marcel 
Fontaine who was falsely depicted by Infowars as the gunman in 
the 2018 Parkland, Fla. mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman 
Douglas High School.

Jones has since acknowledged the Sandy Hook killings happened, 
but claims his speech is protected by the First Amendment.

A lawyer for the Sandy Hook families celebrated the rulings.

“We are pleased Mr. Jones is learning that his frivolous efforts 
to delay this case will not spare him from the reckoning to 
come,” Mark Bankston told the Statesman.

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defamation-suits-against-alex-jones/