Families of Sandy Hook victims score victory in lawsuit against Alex Jones, Infowars

[ABX]

The families of Sandy Hook victims suing Alex Jones scored a legal victory Friday when a judge granted their discovery requests, providing them with access to internal marketing and financial documents from his online radio site InfoWars.
The Connecticut judge will now have to decide by next week whether to allow the attorneys for the six families involved in the lawsuit to depose Jones, according to ABC News.

Jones is being sued for defamation by the plaintiffs over his statements questioning whether the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax and whether the children were "crisis actors.".....

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/424980-families-of-sandy-hook-victims-score-victory-in-lawsuit-against-alex?fbclid=IwAR3-xiIGJ9EACp8hYMjrhvsxiPj383mjEC2JxcDCAb1nusUg6MitFOhbyfw

[Applewood]

 

I hope these families ultimately take Jones for everything he has.  Of course, that might not be much.  Thanks to his BS, nutcases who believe Jones were harassing and even threatening these families.  Their lives became a living hell.  Jones is responsible for that.

[jmyrlefuller]

Pet peeve:
Headlines that use the word "victory" or "defeat" for small procedural maneuvers long before a case is decided.

Victory? You win the lawsuit.

Defeat? You lose the lawsuit, or it gets thrown out of court.

Anything else probably doesn't even warrant a full story.

[mountaineer]

I agree, @jmyrlefuller  Granting a discovery request is pretty small potatoes to be termed scoring a victory.