This seems disappointingly low:
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
Parents of a victim have been seeking at least $150m in the defamation trial against the Infowars founder.
They said they had endured harassment and emotional distress because of the right-wing host's misinformation.
Twenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012.
The jury in Austin, Texas, decided compensatory damages on Thursday, and must still determine any punitive damages.
But how many other parents are suing? This article mentions another two cases. That few?
Anyway, maybe this is the reason for the low figure:
“The actual damages were always going to be difficult to quantify, because they were all non-cash damages,” said Epner, a partner at the firm Rottenberg Lipman Rich PC. “They didn’t put in evidence of cash damages, not even how much was being paid for mental health services, since that’s being defrayed by Sandy Hook funds. So I wouldn’t have been surprised by a verdict that was larger than this. I’m not surprised by this verdict, which is double the amount that Jones said on stand would bankrupt him.”
Given the fact that rich idiots are donating funds to Jones, I reckon the only way to get to him is to do him for perjury, and/or contempt of court. Why hasn't anyone been talking about contempt of court? He needs to go to jail.
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Graeme, I don't allow Sandy Hook denialism here. In my book, it's as nutty and (more importantly) as offensive as your major obsession.
Maybe Rudolph Steiner or some guru like that is so connected to the aetheric world, that they can know things from intuition. But you Steve, and I, don't have these supposed powers. So we who lack these superpowers have to stop lying about stuff like that and check it the fuck out.
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