Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 9:33 AM EDT, October 14, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.

The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones’ appeal. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting also sued.

Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022, and his lawyers told the justices that the “plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting” the entire judgment.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-newtown-shooting-alex-jones-infowars-ddcdede90c0c8d2710c768fd0ea9946f

[durablend]

1. Does he go whine to the mob boss now?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Waiting for TSF to sign another Executive Order,

declaring that Jones doesn't have to pay.

At this point, it's feasible to conjecture that TSF isn't above re-writing American jurisprudence and fucking with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. If he can't pardon Jones as this is a civil matter, I can see him attempting to exonerate Jones any way he can imagine.

[progressoid]

11. Or bring Jones to the white house and they can sell some crypto to the public from the oval office.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Deadline Legal Blog-Supreme Court won't review Alex Jones' appeal on $1.4 billion judgment in Sandy Hook case

The Infowars host had warned of a “financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions.”

Fabulous news!

Supreme Court won’t review Alex Jones’ appeal on .4 billion judgment in Sandy Hook case www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— Stephen Trumbull (@smtrumbull.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T14:00:29.034Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-alex-jones-appeal-libel-infowars-rcna236691

The Supreme Court has declined to review Alex Jones’ appeal, which sought to upend the $1.4 billion judgment that the Infowars host called “the largest in American libel history.” He was sued by victims’ relatives over his lies about the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

The denial came Tuesday in an order list containing actions in pending appeals. It takes four justices to grant review, and most petitions are denied.

In his failed petition, Jones said the judgment “can never be paid” and that the litigation outcome is a “financial death penalty by fiat.” He said he couldn’t fairly defend himself, complaining that the Connecticut legal process lacked “meaningful appellate review” and featured “a punitive administrative Death Penalty Sanction for small discovery errors to impose liability, bypass burdens of proof, and award punitive damages.”

Jones argues that his First Amendment rights were given short shrift and that his statements were taken out of context. He said he had expressed “opinions of media excesses” when he used terms such as “hoax” and “staged,” which he said were “generally directed at the media circus, while often in the same broadcasts acknowledging that murders had in fact occurred.”

The plaintiffs in the case waived their right to file a brief opposing Jones’ petition at the high court, and the court didn’t request a response before denying his petition, suggesting no justices thought it worthy of further consideration.

This made me smile

[chowder66]

4. Sounds like Schlump ordered his "Sicks" justices to reject it.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. They saw the downside

to helping Jones. Trump doesn't care since Jones hasn't offered him any money.

[Torchlight]

5. They've evolved from shouting "The end is nigh!

on street corners with sandwich boards to shouting it into microphones from air-conditioned cubicles. But the scam and the crank itself is as it ever was. Label it a Podcast, and just about any naive skeptic becomes a True Believer in 4 episodes or less.

[republianmushroom]

6. Some good news.

[rubbersole]

8. Alex, they aren't trying to silence you because you reach "millions" of people...

...they're holding you accountable for being a despicable lying piece of shit who caused suffering families untold additional heartache. Money can't fix what you're responsible for.

[Scalded Nun]

9. Couldn't happen to a more deserving asshole.

[Fil1957]

10. 20 years ago he said that a cabal of pedophiles was in charge of the deep state, and they would endeavor to take away

our rights and freedom. He was right! He just didn't mention the part that he was on the side of the deep state pedophiles.

[Justice matters.]

13. And that destructive WWE-like clown faked "integrity"

Crying like a little baby in his car for money at the news the deep state pedophiles refused to release the E files.

[niyad]

12. hey, alex, you perverted, lying, grifting, pathetic pos, may you receive

everything you deserve.

[struggle4progress]

14. "But how can I torment grieving parents by calling them liars

if I'm hit with these heavy penalties?"

[RussBLib]

15. So who is going to force him to pay?

Limits to free speech? Where have I heard that before?

Start paying, asshole!

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[Wonder Why]

16. Like the Thing's trying to hide the Epstein tapes issue, SCROTUS throws a bone to the left.