For years, the sleazy MAGA propagandist, Alex Jones, unfold conspiracy theories stating that the 2012 Sandy Hook bloodbath was a hoax. This led to the harassment of the victims’ households. Consequently, the households sued Jones for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional misery, and juries awarded them over $1.5 billion in damages.
As anticipated, Jones declared chapter and claimed to be penniless, promising his viewers that he would by no means pay the households he traumatized. However he not too long ago came upon the arduous approach that he cannot use chapter to keep away from paying the damages. In a new video breakdown, LegalEagle explains the current courtroom ruling that rejected Jones’ try and have his judgment money owed wiped away by means of chapter. “A decide in Texas simply shut down that effort, declaring that as a matter of legislation, at the very least $1 billion of Jones’ judgment money owed can’t be wiped away by chapter,” LegalEagle explains.
The Sandy Hook households have intervened in Jones’ chapter case, alleging his money owed to them are non-dischargeable as a result of they resulted from “willful and malicious harm.” Jones claimed the default judgments in opposition to him have been unfair and unconstitutional.
However the decide granted abstract judgment for the plaintiffs, invoking “collateral estoppel” to stop Jones from re-litigating points already determined in opposition to him. *(Collateral estoppel is a authorized precept in American legislation that stops a difficulty of truth or a query of legislation that has already been determined from being re-litigated in a subsequent case between the identical events.) “Accordingly, Choose Lopes concluded the deemed admissions have been adequate to ascertain that Jones inflicted willful and malicious harm on the Sandy Hook plaintiffs,” LegalEagle says.
It is a big victory for the victims’ households, although the authorized saga is probably going removed from over, as Jones can nonetheless attraction.
