Alex Jones no-shows at hearing in latest Sandy Hook defamation case – By Michael Murney (Houston Chronicle) / July 16, 2022
Jones is facing yet another defamation case brought by Sandy Hook parents over his repeated claims that the 2012 school shooting never happened.
Alex Jones, Austin-based founder of the far-right conspiracy-driven media company Infowars, failed to show up Friday for a hearing in the latest ongoing defamation lawsuit brought by Sandy Hook parents against Jones.
Friday’s was the only pre-trial hearing in a lawsuit brought by Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse was killed by the Sandy Hook gunman. Their case was originally filed in 2018. Since then, Jones has “intentionally disobeyed the court’s order” by refusing to hand over documents in compliance with the discovery process, Judge Guerra Gamble wrote in a court order last year.
Attorneys for Heslin and Lewis say Jones’ no-show in an Austin court on Friday is just the latest example of the right-wing provocateur’s ongoing “lack of respect for the discovery process.”
