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John Roddy
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I strongly recommend reading the opinion before calling this a travesty. The haircut on these damages is nothing compared to the Connecticut award, and the stuff the appeals court confirmed is actually really devastating to him.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Alex Jones won a Texas appeals court order reducing the $50 million he was ordered to pay the Sandy Hook parents to $1.5 million

news.bloomberglaw.comAlex Jones’ $50 Million Sandy Hook Verdict Cut to $1.5 MillionConspiracy theorist Alex Jones won a Texas appeals court order Friday reducing the $50 million he was ordered to pay the parents of children slain in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to ...
John Roddy
@roddyi.com

See, *that* is an actual legal problem that warrants action. You can't go to trial and receive a jury verdict in your favor only to retroactively modify the petition to declare that it was actually a trial over this other more favorable statute. That's not how this works.

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