VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — The Sandy Hook households’ lawsuits against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown faculty taking pictures a hoax seem poised to resume quickly, primarily based on agreements revealed Friday within the chapter circumstances of a few of Jones’ firms.
The chapter filings of Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Health final month delayed the lawsuits filed in Texas and Connecticut. Jones has already misplaced the defamation lawsuits, and the filings got here every week earlier than a jury in Texas was set to start contemplating how a lot cash Jones ought to pay the households of victims within the Sandy Hook Elementary School taking pictures.
On Friday, legal professionals within the chapter case stated the households might be eliminated as collectors, and Infowars and Prison Planet TV might be eliminated as defendants within the Texas and Connecticut defamation circumstances.
The state circumstances would then proceed against Jones and his largest money-making firm, Free Speech Systems, neither of which filed for chapter. It was not instantly clear when these circumstances will resume.
The legal professionals’ feedback got here throughout a listening to in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Texas. Kyung Lee, a lawyer for Jones’ firms, stated the chapter case will proceed as a result of they produce other collectors.
A listening to, nevertheless, stays scheduled for May 27 on whether or not the chapter case needs to be dismissed. The Sandy Hook households have questioned the legitimacy of the filings, saying they have been meant solely to delay the defamation lawsuits — claims Jones’ legal professionals deny.
The taking pictures at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 youngsters and 6 educators.
The households of eight of the victims and an FBI agent who responded to faculty sued Jones, Infowars and others, saying they’ve been subjected to harassment and demise threats from Jones’ followers due to the hoax conspiracy. Jones has since stated he believes the taking pictures did happen.