Alex Jones trial moves to punitive damages phase

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Source: Associated Press

Alex Jones trial moves to punitive damages phase

By DAVE COLLINS
November 4, 2022

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones faces the possibility of having more steep penalties heaped onto the vast amount he already owes for spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as the punitive damages phase began Friday in a lawsuit filed by the victims’ families.

A Connecticut jury last month ordered Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, to pay $965 million to the Sandy Hook families for harm they suffered after he persuaded his audience that the 2012 shooting that killed 26 people was a hoax perpetrated by “crisis actors.”

The jury also said punitive damages should be awarded. That amount, to be determined by Judge Barbara Bellis following the court hearing Friday and another one Monday, would be added to the compensatory damages already ordered.

Friday’s hearing, which was only about the plaintiffs’ legal fees and was held via a video conference, suggested a big additional penalty was possible for Jones.

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2. I hope the punitive damages are 10 times the last amount...

Not because anyone will ever actually see any of it, but because it's purpose is to punish him into not doing this shit again, and if a half trillion dollar settlement takes him off the air/ internet, it will be well-decided (and yes, I know, for him to be totally gone from the web will require him to actually die first, but still...)