Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to freeze $1.5B judgment
Alex Jones filed an emergency application on Thursday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt enforcement of the nearly $1.5 billion Connecticut defamation judgment awarded to Sandy Hook families. He argues the plaintiffs are public figures and that his statements concerned a matter of public concern, seeking a stay while the justices consider whether to take up his appeal; Jones and his company are in bankruptcy, and a judge previously blocked a proposed sale of InfoWars to The Onion.
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đ Key Facts
- Jones seeks a Supreme Court stay of a nearly $1.5 billion judgment (including $965M compensatory and $474M punitive) stemming from the Sandy Hook defamation case.
- He claims First Amendment protections apply because the plaintiffs are public figures and his coverage was on a public matter.
- Jones and Free Speech Systems are in bankruptcy; a judge blocked an attempted sale of InfoWars to The Onion, though a sale effort is ongoing.