The judge opted not to apply a $750,000 cap Texas imposes on punitive damages, questioning its constitutionality and saying Jones had “done something horrible” in claiming the shooting was faked.
against high jury awards in civil cases. A 2003 law required that punitive damages only be awarded in cases where the jury unanimously agrees.
"The problem that existed at the time was that there were a lot of lawsuits of questionable merit being brought where huge punitive damages were being threatened," former state Rep. Joe Nixon, who authored the 2003 law, toldAlex Jones trial: Jones mocks Sandy Hook parent in latest Infowars episode, takes stand
Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of Jesse Lewis, a victim of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting took the stand Tuesday, followed later in the day by Alex Jones himself.— totaling nearly $1.5 billion so far — for promoting a conspiracy theory that the 2012 mass shooting in a Connecticut elementary school was staged by crisis actors in order to justify the government taking away people’s guns.
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