Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy to avoid Sandy Hook damages, judge rules

Infowars host must pay $1.5bn to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that 2012 massacre was a hoax

A Texas judge has ruled that the Infowars host, Alex Jones, cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying nearly $1.5bn to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.

The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation's deadliest school shooting. US district judge Christopher Lopez of Houston issued the ruling on Thursday.