Heslin v. Jones — A Case of Bad Lawyering
<p>Last week, Alex Jones, founder of far-right news website Infowars, was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/jury-alex-jones-defamation-case-begin-deliberations-punitive-damages-2022-08-05/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">ordered</a> by a jury to pay $49.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages and to one of the parents of the children murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre. The parent, Neil Heslin, sued Jones for defamation for accusing them of faking the death of their children in order to attack gun rights.</p>
<p>From the very beginning, the case was horrifying. The things Jones accused the Sandy Hook parents of at the very time they were grieving for their children were disgusting. As an attorney I was interested to see how the case would play out. Jones has been spreading lies for so long and showed no signs of stopping even after he was <a href="https://time.com/4880191/john-oliver-alex-jones-last-week-tonight/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">ridiculed by John Oliver</a> and inspired one of his followers to shoot an AR-15 inside a pizza restaurant. Jones would <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/26/521545788/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-apologizes-for-promoting-pizzagate" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">apologize</a> and then find the next conspiracy to latch onto.</p>
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