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PublishedNovember 25, 2024
The Onion’s bid for Alex Jones’ Infowars hangs in the balance as judge orders new hearing
A federal judge in Texas has delayed a hearing in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' effort to stop the satirical news outlet The Onion from buying Infowars and turning it into a parody.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2024
Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones’ Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said during a court hearing Tuesday that he will approve the auctions that start in November.
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PublishedJune 27, 2024
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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PublishedJune 14, 2024
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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PublishedDecember 16, 2023
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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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Sandy Hook Promise offers survivor experience, advice for moving forward after mass shooting
Nicole Hockley co-founded and is CEO of the nonprofit organization Sandy Hook Promise, which formed after the devastation of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2023
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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PublishedOctober 1, 2023
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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PublishedSeptember 14, 2023
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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PublishedDecember 14, 2022
10 years ago, 26 Sandy Hook families received unthinkable news
The massacre at a Connecticut elementary school changed the national conversation on school safety and gun control.
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