Texas court cuts Alex Jones Sandy Hook verdict from $50M to about $6M
What's next: The ruling leaves a separate $1.25 billion Connecticut judgment untouched as Jones keeps appealing.
A Texas appeals court cut a nearly $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to about $6 million in the Sandy Hook defamation case. The court left intact more than $4.1 million in compensatory damages awarded to parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, but reduced punitive damages from more than $45 million to $1.5 million under Texas caps. The case stems from Jones' false claims that the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. Heslin and Lewis lost their 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, in the attack, which killed 20 children and six educators. The ruling does not affect a separate $1.25 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut.