Families of the Sandy Hook victims had backed The Onion’s bid.
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Judge halts collection of $50 million Alex Jones owes to Sandy Hook victims’ parents
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said Thursday a Texas judge’s ruling that victim Jesse Lewis’ family could start collecting on the settlement conflicts with federal bankruptcy law.
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Alex Jones’ assets to be sold to help pay $1.5 billion Sandy Hook debt as company bankruptcy is thrown out
Judge Christopher Lopez approved converting Jones’ proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation, but threw out the attempted reorganization of his company Free Speech Systems.
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Alex Jones offers to pay Sandy Hook families at least $55 million over school shooting hoax conspiracy
The families have filed a proposal seeking to liquidate nearly all of Jones’ assets, including his media company Free Speech Systems, and give the proceeds to them and other creditors.
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Judge rules Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families
The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation’s deadliest school shooting.
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Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since Sandy Hook
Immediately after it was passed, the law was challenged in court by gun rights supporters. Connecticut’s landmark 2013 gun law, passed in response to the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown that claimed 26 lives, is also being contested in court.
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Alex Jones spent over $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook families who sued him have yet to see a dime
Families won nearly $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones in lawsuits over repeated promotion of a false theory that the school shooting never happened.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones files for bankruptcy in face of $1.5 billion in damages
Jones faces court orders to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.
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Alex Jones’ lawyers argue against severe punitive damages for Sandy Hook lies
Under Connecticut law, Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis, who presided over the trial, will decide what the victims get in punitive damages after weighing wildly disparate arguments.
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Alex Jones trial moves to punitive damages phase
The Infowars host’s lawyer, Norm Pattis, has asked the judge not to award any punitive damages under the Unfair Trade Practices Act.