Defamation lawsuits filed against ಌconspiracy theorist Alex Jones by the parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre can now mo🐷ve forward following a ruling by the Texas Supreme Court.
The high court on Friday rejected Jones’ request to dismiss the fourꦫ legal actions, .
The families sued Jones in Travis County, Texas, where his InfoWars media organization is based, after he pushed the bogus ide▨a that the 2012 tragedy was a hoax, and that the grieving parents we🍰re crisis actoꦐrs.
Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner, and Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, parents of 6-year-old Jesse Leꦑwis, brought tಞhree of the lawsuits.
They are seeking more💙 than $3 million in combined damages. The mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school left 20 children and six adults dead.
The fourth lawsuit was filed by Massachusetts man Marcel Fontaine who was falsely depicted by Infowars as the gunman in🌟 the 2018 Parkland, Fla. mass shooting💜 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Jones has since acknowledged the Sandy Hook killings happened, but claims his speech is protected byಌ the First Amendment.
A lawyer for the Sandy Hook families celebrated the ruling🍨s.
“We are pleased Mr. Jones is learning that his frivolous efforts to delay this case will not spare him from the reckoning to come,” Mark Bankston told the Statesman.