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orlylicious wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:39 pm Norm Pattis and the insufferable Robert Barnes are on live with Alex right now. Norm is "terribly upset" that Alex is "being held to a standard of perfection that's unattainable". He's so sad they couldn't SLAPP. We all need to get our tiny violins out. It's actually an interesting segment... Jones and Barnes are useless, but Norm is bewildered that he's a laughingstock.

noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 12:47 pm "Don't lie" is an unattainable goal?

I suppose that for him, it is. I'm not sure that he is capable of telling the truth. He has not shown any such ability, as yet.

One person who sent a letter to Mark and Jackie Barden, whose 7-year-old son Daniel was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, claimed to have urinated on the child’s grave. In another letter, someone threatened to dig up Daniel’s grave to prove he didn’t exist, his parents testified in Jones’ trial on Tuesday.

Alex Jones seeks new trial after $965 million verdict in Sandy Hook lawsuit

Nation Oct 22, 2022 3:00 PM EDT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, who say they were subjected to harassment and threats from Jones’ lies about the 2012 Newtown school shooting.

Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis’ pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and “a substantial miscarriage of justice.”

“Additionally, the amount of the compensatory damages award exceeds any rational relationship to the evidence offered at trial,” Jones’ lawyers, Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith, wrote in the motion.

Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the 15 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Jones, declined to comment on the filing Saturday, but said he and other attorneys for the Sandy Hook families will be filing a brief opposing Jones’ request.



https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ale ... ok-lawsuit

Colin
@Kolyin
Jones has moved for remittitur (asking the judge to reduce the jury's nearly $1 billion award), and I don't think I've ever seen someone leave search term highlights and hyperlinks in the doc like this. The link isn't even a live hyperlink, just blue and underlined.

tek wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:23 pm Pretty sure his lawyers know they ain't gettin' paid for anything from here on out.

chancery wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:00 pm No.

But bankruptcy court has its ways of making sure that lawyers are always paid.

somerset wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 9:45 pm

chancery wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:00 pm No.

But bankruptcy court has its ways of making sure that lawyers are always paid.

Beyond "cash up front," what else?
(my only experience with a bankruptcy court was BKing a small, dormant S-corp I owned as a way of shutting down some stupid litigation. I'd imagine things are a bit different when several more zeros are involved).

Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $473M More to Sandy Hook Families
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company have been ordered to pay an extra $473 million to families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

humblescribe » Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:35 pm
One wonders: Did Jones start to squirrel away money in offshore accounts or transact fraudulent conveyances well before the trial started to get under way?

DALLAS (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday failed in his bid to slash a nearly $50 million defamation verdict against him over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax.

Judge Maya Guerra Gamble rejected arguments by a lawyer for Jones and the parent company of his Infowars website that a Texas state law capping certain types of damages meant that the August verdict in favor of two parents of a child slain at Sandy Hook should be cut by more than $40 million.

Jones claimed for years that the 2012 killing of 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was staged with actors as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns. He has since acknowledged the shooting occurred.

Plaintiffs Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis testified that they suffered years of harassment and abuse at the hands of Jones' followers, who falsely believed they lied about their six-year-old son Jesse Lewis' death.

Texas law caps non-economic punitive damages, which made up $45.2 million of the total verdict. Heslin and Lewis' lawyers successfully argued that the cap does not apply due to a carveout for intentional abuse of a disabled person, saying trauma over their son's death counted as a disability.