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Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
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Remarkably, I think this is all economic damages --- they haven't reached the punitive damages phase. Furthermore, Connecticut doesn't have caps on compensatory damage for emotional distress. So this isn't quite like the Texas situation, where Jones attorneys successfully convinced the jury to award relatively small compensatory damages and large punitive damages --- those Texas punitive damages will get knocked way…
I know your latter statement is true. Not sure about the former but IANAL. I do know attorney's fees are coming next. Still, I think the odds he actually is forced to pay almost any of this are vanishingly small.
I'm less certain. It looks like this mostly hinges on the bankruptcy filings, which weren't going great for Jones (as, of course, they should not, as they seem pretty bogus).
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#44I think that is grossly excessive.
Despite my strong belief that he be strongly punished for his lies, I agree with you. It's so over the top that it discredits the whole process for me.
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#45And yet I'm reasonably confident he'll exercise some legal maneuver to avoid paying even 1% of it, and will continue to live out the rest of his life in comfort.
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#46This is more than the amount that people that lied about WDM's in the middle East were ever fined with. Consider they killed millions. Please know that I am not siding with Jones but this is ludicrous.
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#47He will never possibly be able to pay this amount. It's just theater and will never happen.
He may not pay that amount, but he will spend the rest of his life bankrupt or spending most of his energy avoiding judgement, which is a not unreasonable fate for people who make a living lying, cheating, and stealing.
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Is a billion not enough?
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He made hundreds of millions of dollars spreading his lies. He shouldn't profit from that, and should be forced to give all the revenue to the families he effected with his lies. You shouldn't be able to profit off of others misery like that, get caught out, and then go whoopsy and pay a small percentage of all the money you made off of it. That just encourages you and others to do it again.
Would it be ok if he wasn’t profiting from it?
HN doesn't like these kinds of questions.
You're right - it is OK as long as he's not profiting nor has a bullhorn the size of his. Otherwise, Wolfgang Halbig would be in the same kind of shit. He isn't.
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