Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims win legal victory in lawsuit against InfoWars, Alex Jones
Source: ABC News
Six families of victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School won a legal victory Friday in their fight against controversial radio and internet personality Alex Jones.
A judge in Connecticut has granted the families discovery requests, allowing them access to, among other things, InfoWars internal marketing and financial documents.
The judge has scheduled a hearing next week to decide whether to allow the plaintiffs attorneys to depose Jones.
The families sued Jones and InfoWars for defamation and accused him of perpetuating a monstrous, unspeakable lie: that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and that the families who lost loved ones that day are actors who faked their relatives deaths.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/families-sandy-hook-shooting-victims-win-legal-victory/story?id=60314174
GusBob
(7,286 posts)NRA
yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)till he doesn't have 3 cents in his pocket! Keep him unemployed for life!
Mr.Bill
(24,354 posts)"Hey, I'm just an entertainer" defense.
marybourg
(12,648 posts)Maybe to copyright infringement, but not to defamation of character.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)He can rant and rave all he wants about the government and about Hillary and any other public figure. Once you place yourself on that stage, you have pretty much given up your ability to sue for defamation. The bar is too high.
These plaintiffs though, are normal, everyday people. None of them asked to be put into the spotlight. A very few of them made public statements but that's not the same as being a very public activist or politician.
When they find the e-mails and other documents that will indicate Jones and Infowars clearly knew they were propagating a lie he will lose. I have no doubt there will be documents where he and others discuss how it will or is positively affecting ratings so they should do more. Discuss strategies to make it "bigger and better."
marybourg
(12,648 posts)The claim is so outrageous that it meets the Sullivan standard on its face. More would, of course, always be good.
Cha
(297,935 posts)dalton99a
(81,673 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Traildogbob
(8,868 posts)5.7 billion dollars for a real emergency, gun deaths, would go a long way for survivors medical bills, psyc help and burials. Not to mention the real potential cost of the wall, $30 billion and up. Every year more deaths than occurred in Vietnam, seems like a state of emergency to most Americans.
SunSeeker
(51,787 posts)I assume one of the reasons they are looking into his financials is to determine how high the punitive damages should be.
stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)bluestarone
(17,101 posts)GO GET THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)Theyre looking for all the bad things liberals have ever said about the Hard Right to shame us into silence. It wont work, but thats what theyll do.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)cp
(6,674 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's still not enough for all the pain and grief that bastard caused those families. I can't believe how unspeakably cruel this vicious, politically motivated lie was. He will never suffer enough for what he has done.
klook
(12,174 posts)To heap that kind of cruelty on these suffering families, whove endured unspeakable horror and devastation I cant even fathom how someone can be that evil.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Nothing!
(It was a trick question)
GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)...the piece of shit is less offensive than Jones.
christx30
(6,241 posts)useful.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)oldsoftie
(12,651 posts)Squinch
(51,075 posts)the deepest circle of hell.
tavernier
(12,410 posts)in the right direction. These families have lived in hell.