Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim

Re:Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Ho... by seventytwo on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:46PM (#32364030)

What’s important about this, is that Jones is being sued in other jurisdictions that don’t have maximum punitive limits.

So it sets an important precedent for Jones (and others), that doing this kind of thing can cost you up to $50 million.

Even though Jones won’t actually have to pay that amount, an important example has been made of him.

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Re:Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Ho... by scarab92 on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:29AM (#32366475)

Juries awarding excessive punitive damages was enough of a problem that many states capped it.

Seems more likely to me that, in the long run, this will also occur in the remaining states.

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