Alex Jones will likely not have to pay anywhere near full $45M in damages to Sandy Hook parents due to Texas law that limits winnings to just $750,000 on each count, legal experts say
While juries have broad discretion on awards, states law caps punitive damages at $750,000 when economic losses are not involved, as in this case.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-pay-near-45M-damages-Sandy-Hook-parents.html
There are a total of 20 children that were murdered...all the parents plan to sue individually for their own defamation suit against Alex Jones.
This defamation award was only for the parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis.
Simply, 18 more to go or 18 x 750,000 =
13.5 million dollars while each defamation lawsuit (each count) is capped at 750,000.
That's how lawyers get around the Texas law that caps an individual defamation lawsuit. Lawyers will (as in this defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones) ask their clients to file
individually instead of a class action (group) lawsuit.
In contrast, there's now the new issue of perjury that occurred during the trial. It will now most likely traverse into a criminal issue against Alex Jones. If convicted, he'll get a
slap on the wrist...1 year instead of 2 years in prison.
Regardless, the world now knows he's a liar that
stooped so low to enable his followers the ability to troll, stalk, harass and threaten the families of the murdered 20 children when he decided to give them their work addresses, home addresses and telephone numbers.
The guy is a troll and stupid that now needs to begin coughing up money to those parents.
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