Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

  • PatFusty
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    2 years ago

    Give out the state maximum punishment of $1k for punitive damages in connecticut… i think worst case is the $300k punitive damages for state of Texas or 1% of net worth if class action.

    I actually am not super familiar with the case but I dont think anyone on earth has a liquid $1B unless you are saudi royalty…

    But there were (4?) cases right? Each of the families got between 300M and 500M? Hes not the one that killed the babies, what kind of precedence are they trying to make?

    • ZeroCool
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      12 years ago

      I actually am not super familiar with the case

      And yet you’re happy to lecture us on the appropriateness of the outcome. Interesting.

      • PatFusty
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        -22 years ago

        Do i need to know every detail of the case in order to make judgement? Ok sure

        • @T1000@lemm.ee
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          12 years ago

          You should probably know what the case was about at least. Nobody said AJ killed anyone.