Alex Jones’ $1 Billion Defamation Case Rejected by Top Court (1)

The US Supreme Court denied conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ request to review and overturn a nearly $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him stemming from his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

The justices’ order Tuesday leaves the Infowars host without any further avenues to appeal what he has called “a financial death penalty.” As is customary, the denial order was issued without additional explanation of the court’s reasoning.

Jones, who was found financially liable in 2021 for spreading falsehoods about the murder victims and families of those killed by Adam Lanza, said a Connecticut court’s default judgment without trial and 10-figure jury award were too steep a penalty for violating discovery and protective orders.

Citing the Supreme Court’s landmark holding in New York Times v. Sullivan limiting the ability of a public official to sue for defamation, Jones said the outcome of his case puts First Amendment protections at risk and “will chill the reporting of news.”

A Connecticut jury awarded $965 million in compensatory damages and $471.7 million in other damages to 15 family members of shooting victims and one FBI agent who responded to the 2012 attack, which killed 20 children and six school staffers.

“The Supreme Court properly rejected Jones’s latest desperate attempt to avoid accountability for the harm he has caused,” the families’ attorney, Chris Mattei of Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC, said in a statement. “We look forward to enforcing the jury’s historic verdict and making Jones and Infowars pay for what they have done.”

Jones’ attorneys didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The conservative commentator filed his petition to the nation’s highest court following the Connecticut Supreme Court’s refusal in April to review the default decision and jury award.

Jones has so far staved off paying the plaintiffs by filing for bankruptcy in 2022.

A Houston bankruptcy judge found in 2023 that the Connecticut judgment and another for families that sued Jones in Texas can’t be discharged in bankruptcy. The proceedings have since unraveled, leading to the conversion of his bankruptcy to a trustee-run Chapter 7 liquidation.

Jones is represented by Broocks Law Firm PLLC, Alan Daughtry Law Firm, and Jordan & Ortiz PC.

The case is Jones v. Lafferty, U.S., No. 25-268, order 10/14/25.