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TexasTowelie

(116,501 posts)
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 02:47 AM Oct 2021

Judge to sanction Alex Jones defense lawyers in Sandy Hook suit

HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Connecticut judge will sanction the defense attorneys for Alex Jones in the long-running civil lawsuit brought against the inflammatory online conspiracy theorist by the parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.

Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis announced Wednesday morning that she will impose new sanctions on Jones' attorneys for violating a court order when they included information from a confidential deposition this summer in a motion seeking to question former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, suggesting Clinton had arranged the families' lawsuit as a vendetta against Jones after her 2016 loss to former President Donald Trump.

Bellis also will consider additional sanctions over what she called "highly inappropriate" and "abusive questioning" by Jones defense attorney Jay Wolman during a September deposition, during which he demanded the man being deposed search email records on his phone even though the subpoena issued by the court did not require it, she said.

The Connecticut cases are continuing this fall after a Texas judge's decision late last month to hold Jones responsible for all damages in three similar defamation lawsuits filed there after Jones repeatedly ignored orders to turn over records to the families' lawyers. Those cases now will be turned over to juries to decide how much in damages Jones must pay to the families while a jury trial in the Connecticut case is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2022.

Read more: https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2021/oct/20/judge-to-sanction-alex-jones-defense-lawyers-in/

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Judge to sanction Alex Jones defense lawyers in Sandy Hook suit (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
K&R and off to The Greatest Page! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #1
Thanks. TexasTowelie Oct 2021 #2
I vote for a million dollars per family, and an additional million twodogsbarking Oct 2021 #3
Disbar those attorneys RainCaster Oct 2021 #4
There is a hearing on Monday in the Texas cases for Alex Jones LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #5

TexasTowelie

(116,501 posts)
2. Thanks.
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 04:54 AM
Oct 2021

I'm surprised that I didn't see this story in some of the more prominent media sites, but if an article in the Texarkana Gazette makes your day, then so be it!

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