Texas Judge Rejects Alex Jones’ Bid to Reduce $50 Million Defamation Verdict

Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify at a trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 22, 2022. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool

Infowars host Alex Jones’s bid to decrease the millions of dollars in damages he’s required to pay to the family of a 6-year-old killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was rejected by a Texas judge on Tuesday.

In August, a Texas jury determined that Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems LLC—Infowars’ parent company—must pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages and $45.2 million in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis as part of a defamation lawsuit.