Third Sandy Hook case against Alex Jones heads to appeal court
State District Judge Scott Jenkins has denied Alex Jones’ request to dismiss the latest case alleging that the Austin radio and internet host was fully aware he would cause harm to Sandy Hook parents when he falsely reported that the 2012 Newtown, Conn., school shooting was a hoax.
Jenkins’ two-sentence order, filed in Travis County District Court on Friday, marks the third time the judge declined to dismiss a Sandy Hook parent’s lawsuit against Jones. With Jones’ lawyer appealing the order sometime this week, all three cases will be teed-up for hearings before the Third Court of Appeals in Austin.
“With this latest ruling, these families now have a light at the end of the tunnel in their struggle for justice and accountability,” said Houston attorney Mark Bankston, who represents Sandy Hook parent Scarlett Lewis in the latest case and three more parents in the two other ones.
Robert Barnes, the Los Angeles attorney who earlier this year became chief counsel for InfoWars, Jones’ media platform, said he was also pleased with Jenkins’ ruling.
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