WASHINGTON — The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday rejected conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ last-ditch try to dam an virtually $1.5 billion defamation judgment he faces over false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook faculty taking pictures was a hoax.
The court docket with out remark turned away Jones’ enchantment of a state court docket ruling.
Final week he urged the court docket to urgently intervene, saying that if the court docket didn’t take motion, his web site, Infowars, was liable to being turned over to the satirical information web site The Onion.
The proposed acquisition could be used to assist fund funds to members of the family of the Sandy Hook victims.
Jones’ legal professionals had warned within the submitting final week that if the case was not placed on maintain, “InfoWars could have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed.”
In December 2012, a gunman killed 20 first-grade kids and 6 adults on the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty in Newtown, Connecticut.
After the taking pictures, Jones on a couple of event instructed throughout his on-line reveals that it was a “staged occasion,” based on court docket papers.
Households of the victims then sued in Connecticut state court docket, claiming defamation in addition to different state regulation violations.
Jones, who owns InfoWars via his firm Free Speech Programs, subsequently misplaced makes an attempt in state court docket to enchantment the judgment. He’s additionally searching for chapter protections.
The Onion failed in an earlier try to accumulate InfoWars via a chapter public sale, however Jones’ lawyer mentioned a brand new try is underway in Texas state court docket.
