sandy hook
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PublishedDecember 16, 2023
Alex Jones offers to pay Sandy Hook families at least $55 million over school shooting hoax conspiracy
The families have filed a proposal seeking to liquidate nearly all of Jones' assets, including his media company Free Speech Systems, and give the proceeds to them and other creditors.
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PublishedNovember 2, 2023
Sandy Hook Promise offers survivor experience, advice for moving forward after mass shooting
Nicole Hockley co-founded and is CEO of the nonprofit organization Sandy Hook Promise, which formed after the devastation of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2023
Judge rules Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families
The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation's deadliest school shooting.
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PublishedOctober 1, 2023
Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since Sandy Hook
Immediately after it was passed, the law was challenged in court by gun rights supporters. Connecticut’s landmark 2013 gun law, passed in response to the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown that claimed 26 lives, is also being contested in court.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2023
Alex Jones spent over $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook families who sued him have yet to see a dime
Families won nearly $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones in lawsuits over repeated promotion of a false theory that the school shooting never happened.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2022
10 years ago, 26 Sandy Hook families received unthinkable news
The massacre at a Connecticut elementary school changed the national conversation on school safety and gun control.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2022
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones files for bankruptcy in face of $1.5 billion in damages
Jones faces court orders to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2022
Alex Jones ordered to pay $473 million more to Sandy Hook families
Jurors had already ordered Jones to pay $965 million to compensate the families, bringing the total to $1.44 billion.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2022
Alex Jones’ lawyers argue against severe punitive damages for Sandy Hook lies
Under Connecticut law, Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis, who presided over the trial, will decide what the victims get in punitive damages after weighing wildly disparate arguments.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2022
Sandy Hook families want another $320 million to cover costs of suing Alex Jones
The millions for legal fees and expenses – should the judge accept the figure – would comprise one category of punitive damages the jury awarded against Jones on Oct. 12.
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