The $965 million in damages awarded by the jury in the Connecticut case are considered to be compensatory, whereas the $493 million awarded by the judge are punitive. That doesn't mean that we have to view it that way.
>>>The Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims an additional $473 million in punitive damages for defaming them, a judge in Connecticut ruled on Thursday, bringing the total damages to nearly $1.5 billion.
Last month, a jury in Waterbury, Conn., awarded the families and an F.B.I. agent implicated in Mr. Jones’s false claims
$965 million in compensatory damages. The jury also awarded the families punitive damages in the form of lawyers’ fees, to be calculated by the judge. The $473 million awarded on Thursday by Judge Barbara N. Bellis of Connecticut Superior Court represents those damages.<<<
A judge added $473 million in fees to the award Mr. Jones must pay in a Connecticut case and ordered him not to move his personal assets outside the United States.
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Jones chose default judgements by refusing to cooperate in both Connecticut and Texas:
>>>After Jones refused to submit financial records, testimony and documents ordered by the courts, judges in Texas and Connecticut
ruled him liable by default, a sweeping victory for the families that set the stages for the damages trials.<<<
Now he wants new trials, but that dog don't hunt.
The jury in Connecticut went above the damages one of the plaintiff's lawyers asked for. Jones himself was the star witness for the plaintiffs. Jones is the one who convinced the jury of the damages.
In the Texas case the jury awarded about $4 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages:
>>>In August, a jury in Austin, Texas, ordered Mr. Jones to pay Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose son Jesse Lewis died in the massacre in Newtown, Conn., $4 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages after Mr. Jones spread lies that the shooting had been staged and that the parents were actors.<<<
Texas law limits punitive damages to far below what a jury awarded in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a Sandy Hook victim, but the judge called it “a rare case.”
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Given that he got hammered by the judge and jury in his home state of Texas, the Connecticut case is not an aberration brought on by a cabal of communist new world order kooks.
Of course he's crying like a little beyotch about it, but his own actions sealed his fate.
