Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

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    1 year ago

    The original post said:

    He’s not paying 1billion for a single defamation case.

    It was still a single case, ruled by a single judge. It’s much different than many different cases adding like like was suggested. One case, 1b in damages.