Infowars Parent’s Bankruptcy Raises Debt, Willful Injury Questions

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filling of Infowars’ parent company highlights questions around the definition of willful and malicious injury and the validity of millions of dollars of debt the Alex Jones-led debtor says it owes to an associated business.

The July 29 petition by Free Speech Systems LLC in a Houston bankruptcy court came in the middle of a two-week trial in Texas to determine the amount of damages that should be awarded to families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.

Those families have won defamation lawsuits against Jones, who falsely claimed that the 2012 shooting rampage never happened. ...