he was lying about the event being a hoax calling it a tragedy but wouldn't go so far to admit uh any wrongdoing from himself towards the victims and their parents yeah no so within the house he's like yes this absolutely happened but didn't say i'm sorry because that would imply guilt and didn't say anything that would implicate him as guilty yeah so jones even went so far as to file a countersuit against the parents who have been through so much but he saw it a hundred thousand dollars uh in court costs with his defense in all of these cases being freedom of speech which actually does go a long way in protecting someone in a defamation case um except for the fact that in this case specifically uh the families actually suffered threats and abuse as a result of his claims yeah for a very long extended period of time during what happened nine years ago during which alex jones had many opportunities to call off the dogs and did not so i i think that's where that's where we get to where we are now yeah well it looks like jones's blatant disregard for disproving any of the claims in the case made this an easy decision for the judge jones and his legal team simply did not comply with court orders to produce information and his actions throughout the proceedings also helped make this judgment a little bit easier the end result is a default judgment against him and a win for the parents associated with these lawsuits from the austin statesman an austin judge has issued default judgments against conspiracy theorist alex jones citing his pattern of bad faith in dealing with lawsuits by parents of two children killed in the NUMBER_TOKEN mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school the rulings mean the lawsuits will proceed to a trial to determine how much money jones and his austin-based infowars media system must pay the parents for defamation and emotional distress caused by the broadcast that called the school shooting a hoax it's no longer a matter of whether jones writes a check to the parents said bill ogden a lawyer for the parents it's now how big a check is going to be district judge maya guerra gamble said the rarely granted motion for a default judgment was appropriate because prior sanctions including NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN in court ordered penalties failed to change jones behavior quote in considering whether lesser remedies would be effective this court has also considered defendant's general bad faith approach to litigation mr jones's public threats and mr jones's professed belief that these proceedings are show trials garrett gamble wrote in three similar orders ogden said he was thrilled at the result quote it's been a long time coming for these parents and we're happy the way it worked out in texas we call default judgments death penalty sanctions we learn about them in law school but none of the lawyers i've spoken with have ever had this happen it's like a unicorn of the law ogden said but we've never seen such blatant disregard for a court's authority the way we have here yeah so it sounds like uh just defying all court orders uh acting like this doesn't exist uh probably contempt of court at some point and uh continuing on with uh not acknowledging the course don't
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