sandy hook
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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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PublishedDecember 2, 2022
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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PublishedNovember 10, 2022
Alex Jones ordered to pay $473 million more to Sandy Hook families
Jurors had already ordered Jones to pay $965 million to compensate the families, bringing the total to $1.44 billion.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2022
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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PublishedNovember 5, 2022
Sandy Hook families want another $320 million to cover costs of suing Alex Jones
The millions for legal fees and expenses – should the judge accept the figure – would comprise one category of punitive damages the jury awarded against Jones on Oct. 12.
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PublishedNovember 4, 2022
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.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2022
Alex Jones seeks new trial after Sandy Hook verdict
Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis' pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and 'a substantial miscarriage of justice.'
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PublishedOctober 13, 2022
Nearly $1 billion judgment against Alex Jones not the final word
Experts say the Sandy Hook families likely face a long fight ahead as they try to collect the $965 million awarded to them.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2022
No verdict yet from jury in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook trial
A Connecticut jury has yet to reach a verdict after its first full day of deliberations in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ defamation trial over his calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2022
Jury sent home; Alex Jones testimony to continue next week
Lawyers in the Connecticut defamation trial of Alex Jones have agreed not to return him to the stand until next week after a contentious day of testimony Thursday about his promotion of the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.
