Alex Jones Expected to Pay $1.4B to Sandy Hook Families, SCOTUS Rejects Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review an appeal from Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars, who was seeking a way to avoid paying a $1.4 billion defamation judgment.

A decade after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that took the lives of 26 children and staff members, Jones was ordered to pay $1.4 billion in damages to some of the families who lost children. The families had sued Jones for defamation, asserting he falsely claimed on his Infowars show and website that the mass shooting was a hoax and that the victims’ family members were actors in a plot to enact extreme gun control legislation.