Judge Rules Against Alex Jones and Infowars in Sandy Hook Lawsuit

[ABX]

A Texas judge denied the motion by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his Infowars operation by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, in a ruling released on Thursday.

The lawsuit was filed in state district court in Austin by Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, parents of Noah Pozner, who was 6 years old when he was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

On his radio broadcast and in videos, Mr. Jones for years spread bogus claims that the shooting was a “false flag,” an event staged by the government as part of an effort to confiscate Americans’ firearms, and that the parents of the children killed were “crisis actors.”...

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/politics/alex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook-lawsuit.amp.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F08%2F30%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Falex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook-lawsuit.html

[ABX]

The sick bastard has been profiting off the blood of these dead children, yet admitting in court he is just an act.

[Frank Cannon]

The sick bastard has been profiting off the blood of these dead children.....

So what. Lawyers do it every day.

[jmyrlefuller]

The headline is misleading. Motions to dismiss are a routine gambit by defense attorneys, and although I'm not a lawyer, the examples I've seen tell me that they're seldom granted unless it's a totally frivolous case.