Alex Jones Punished Plenty by $1 Billion Jury Award, Lawyer Says
- Families urge judge to add millions more in punitive damages
- Sandy Hook victims’ lawyers could earn up to $320 million fee
Alex Jones speaks to members of the media outside court during his trial in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 21.
Photographer: Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images
The almost $1 billion a jury ordered Alex Jones to pay families damaged by the Infowars host’s lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre was punishment enough, his lawyer told a Connecticut judge Monday -- no additional punitive damages should be piled on top.
“If a billion dollars doesn’t do it, then a trillion dollars doesn’t do it and $3 trillion doesn’t do it,” Norm Pattis, Jones’s lawyer, told state judge Barbara Bellis at a hearing in Waterbury, Connecticut. “Mr. Jones was punished enough” when the judge declared the internet host liable for defaming the families, which “deprived him of the right to defend” himself.