Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook victim’s parents $49M despite Texas cap, judge rules

InfoWars founder Alex Jones should pay the complete $49 million a jury awarded the dad and mom of a Sandy Hook faculty capturing sufferer, a Texas choose dominated on Tuesday night, in accordance with a number of experiences.

Why it issues: The quantity is way greater than the cap set by Texas regulation that limits punitive damages to $750,000 per plaintiff — the constitutionality of which U.S. District Courtroom Choose Maya Guerra Gamble questioned on this case, per the New York Instances.

What they’re saying: This was “a uncommon case” as a result of emotional affect Jones’ claims had on Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son was amongst 20 college students and 6 workers killed within the 2012 elementary faculty capturing, mentioned the choose in Travis County, the place InfoWars is predicated, per the NYT.

By the numbers: The jury in Texas awarded them $45.2 million in punitive damages final August for Jones falsely calling the mass capturing in Newtown, Connecticut, a hoax.

• Additionally they ordered the conspiracy theorist pay greater than $4 million in damages to Heslin and Lewis, dad and mom of the murdered 6-year-old Jesse Lewis.

What we’re watching: Jones may enchantment the ruling.

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