What to know about Alex Jones' Texas court win and more than $1 billion in damages he still faces
- Alex Jones is ordered to pay over $1 billion in damages related to his false claims about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
- A Texas court reduced some of the damages awarded to families, saving Jones more than $40 million.
- Jones still faces a defamation judgment of $1.25 billion in Connecticut and nearly $6 million in Texas.
- The Texas court ruling did not dismiss the defamation finding against Jones, who claims it is a victory for free speech.
- Sandy Hook families have not yet collected any money from Jones, who has filed for bankruptcy amid ongoing legal battles.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is still under orders to pay more than $1 billion over his false claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre despite a Texas court reducing some of the money awarded to families.
For the bombastic Infowars founder, the ruling that saves him more than $40 million was still a legal victory amid multiple punishing financial judgments that forced him and his company, Free Speech Systems, to file for bankruptcy.
Sandy Hook families have yet to collect any money from Jones, who has left his Infowars platform amid numerous ongoing legal battles but is still broadcasting on other websites.
He still faces a defamation judgment of $1.25 billion in a Connecticut lawsuit and the nearly $6 million that remains in the Texas case. The Texas court ruling did not throw out the finding of defamation against Jones, who still called it a major victory for free speech and vowed to continue his appeals.
关于亚历克斯·琼斯在德克萨斯州法院胜诉及其面临超过10亿美元赔偿的情况
阴谋论者亚历克斯·琼斯仍被判支付超过10亿美元的赔偿，涉及他关于2012年桑迪胡克小学枪击事件的虚假声明，尽管德克萨斯州法院减少了对家庭的部分赔偿。
对于这位喧嚣的Infowars创始人来说，节省超过4000万美元的裁决在多项严厉的财务判决中仍然是一个法律胜利，这迫使他和他的公司自由言论系统申请破产。
桑迪胡克的家庭尚未从琼斯那里收回任何款项，他在持续的法律斗争中已离开Infowars平台，但仍在其他网站上广播。
他在康涅狄格州的诉讼中仍面临12.5亿美元的诽谤判决，以及德克萨斯州近600万美元的赔偿。德克萨斯州法院的裁决并未撤销对琼斯的诽谤裁定，他仍称这是言论自由的重大胜利，并发誓将继续上诉。