A Texas court has struck down an appeal filed by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s legal team against Neil Heslin, the father of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting who is suing him for defamation after he claimed the 2012 massacre was a hoax, WNPR reported.
The Texas Court of Appeals in Austin has dismissed Jones’s appeal, ordering him to “pay all costs relating to this appeal, both in this Court and in the court below” in a ruling on Aug. 30. The costs appear to entail court fees associated with appeal, according to The Houston Chronicle.
The ruling is the latest development in an ongoing case stemming from a lawsuit Heslin brought against Jones and several other defendants — Jones’s InfoWars website, InfoWars reporter Owen Shroyer and Free Speech Systems, which is the LLC that InfoWars operates under.
Heslin had sued Jones and the other defendants for defamation after Jones claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax and that the parents of those who died in the massacre were “crisis actors.” Heslin and other parents have said that they have been the victims of harassment as a result of the unfounded claims.
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<p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Texas court strikes down Alex Jones appeal in Sandy Hook case, orders him to pay https://t.co/QDA7eP4HWP pic.twitter.com/XNbPWuAoXD</p>— The Hill (@thehill) September 6, 2019
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Wonder if Jones will appeal further.
Good to see Jones lose this round. His “free speech” has caused great harm to the Sandy Hook parents.
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