Supreme Court denies Alex Jones’s appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment

The high court did not elaborate on its decision to reject Jones’s petition for review, which was widely believed to be a long shot. The Supreme Court’s order comes days after Jones had asked the justices to pause the judgment against him pending their decision on his petition, a request that is now moot.

Jones was ordered by a Connecticut jury in 2022 to pay the more than $1 billion judgment after falsely claiming the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 26 people were killed, was a hoax.

The families of victims successfully sued Jones for the harm his false statements about the massacre caused them, with multiple appeals courts rejecting Jones’s attempts to toss the ruling. Jones’s bid at the Supreme Court was his

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