{"id":2497242,"date":"2025-10-09T19:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-jones-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-1-4-billion-defamation-judgement\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:48:35","slug":"alex-jones-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-1-4-billion-defamation-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-jones-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-1-4-billion-defamation-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to pause $1.4 billion defamation judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falex-jones-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-1-4-billion-defamation-judgement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2497242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Alex Jones has requested the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily halt a $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him related to false claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.Jones appealed the ruling and asked the Court to block enforcement of the judgment while it considers his petition. His lawyers argue that allowing the victims&#8217; families to seize and sell his assets, including his platform InfoWars, before the Supreme Court reviews the case woudl cause irreparable harm. The petition notes that a stay would only delay compensation to the families briefly if the Court ultimately refuses to hear the appeal. The original judgment,issued by a Connecticut jury in 2022,found Jones liable for damages after he falsely claimed the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax. Multiple appeals courts have upheld that ruling, making this Supreme Court appeal Jones&#8217;s final attempt to overturn the decision. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to pause $1.4 billion defamation judgement<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2365882\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alex-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alex Jones<\/a> asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Thursday to pause the $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him over false claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Jones appealed the judgment to the high court, which is scheduled to review that petition during its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-good-solid-republican-how-i-helped-the-sexual-revolution-hijack-the-womens-movement\/\" title=\"A Good Solid Republican: How I Helped The Sexual Revolution Hijack The Women\u2019s Movement\">closed-door conference<\/a> on Friday, but asked the justices to block the judgment while they deliberate on whether to take up the appeal. Lawyers for Jones argue he will suffer irreparable harm if the families of the shooting victims are permitted to take control of his assets, including InfoWars, and sell them before the Supreme Court can review the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3829193\/eight-cases-to-watch-new-supreme-court-term\/\">Eight cases to watch in the new Supreme Court term<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3841959\/justice-john-roberts-concerns-imiting-candidate-lawsuits-fraught-election-time\/\">Justice Roberts raises concerns about limiting candidate lawsuits to &#8216;fraught&#8217; election time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3840707\/colorado-conversion-therapy-ban-skeptical-supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court skeptical of Colorado&#8217;s &#8216;conversion therapy&#8217; ban<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Without a stay now, when this case is reviewed and later reversed, InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed &ndash; which Jones believes is the Plaintiffs&rsquo; intention. Hence, Jones will clearly experience irreparable injury if a stay is not granted,&rdquo; the petition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-overturns-chevron-doctrine-upends-administrative-state\/\" title=\"SCOTUS Overturns Chevron Doctrine, Upends Administrative State\">high court&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s emergency docket said.<\/p>\n<p>Jones&rsquo;s lawyers said granting a stay would cause minimal harm to the families, who successfully won the defamation lawsuit, arguing they would only face a short delay in receiving their judgment should the high court grant his stay but reject taking up the case.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting all of this $1,500,000,000 judgment. If a stay is granted and cert denied &ndash; thus ending the stay &ndash; the Plaintiffs will only have been delayed in their plans a short time. If, however, this Court does grant Jones&rsquo;s Writ and reverses, the Stay will actually have been warranted and no damage will have been sustained,&rdquo; the petition said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3829193\/eight-cases-to-watch-new-supreme-court-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EIGHT CASES TO WATCH IN THE NEW SUPREME COURT TERM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jones was ordered by a Connecticut jury in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1589629\/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-upward-of-965-million-to-families-of-sandy-hook-victims-in-defamation-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022<\/a> to pay the more than $1 billion judgment after falsely claiming the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which resulted in 26 people being killed, was a hoax. <\/p>\n<p>The families of victims successfully sued Jones for the harm his false statements about the massacre caused them, with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >multiple appeals courts<\/a> rejecting Jones&rsquo;s attempts to toss the ruling. Jones&rsquo;s bid at the Supreme Court marks his last-ditch effort to stop the judgment from being handed down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to halt $1.4B defamation ruling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2497243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25168591259230.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[64924,32540,9142,32285,32275],"class_list":["post-2497242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-1-4-billion","tag-alex-jones","tag-defamation","tag-legal-case","tag-supreme-court"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25168591259230.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497246,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497242\/revisions\/2497246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}