Connecticut Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones' Bid To Throw Out $1 Billion Sandy Hook Verdict

Jones spent years calling the 2012 school shooting fake. Connecticut's highest court has ruled he must pay around $1 billion to the families.

Connecticut’s highest court upheld a ruling Tuesday that orders conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay around $1 billion in defamation damages to the families of a 2012 school shooting that he spent years falsely claiming was fake.

In a single sentence ruling, the state’s Supreme Court said Jones’ “petition for certification to appeal from the Appellate Court ... is denied.”

In 2022, a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, ruled Jones must pay nearly $1 billion in damages after they heard testimony from the families of those who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting, which left 20 kids and six adults dead.

In their testimony, the families described how Jones used his conspiracy platform, Infowars, to routinely harass grief-stricken family members by calling them “crisis actors” and the shooting “fake.”

Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son Dylan was killed, testified she was sent pictures of dead children by harassers as she mourned the death of her own.