Alex Jones Ordered To Give Deposition In Sandy Hook Case: Update

NEWTOWN, CT — Claiming he has a medical issue, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones sought a delay in sitting for a deposition in a Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit, but a judge reportedly has denied that request, according to The Hour.

New Haven-based attorney Norm Pattis, who represents Jones, filed a motion this week seeking the delay.

"At approximately 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, the undersigned received a telephone callalerting him that Mr. Jones was under the care of a physician for medical conditions that require immediate, and possibly, emergency testing," Pattis wrote in the motion. "I spoke with a person representing himself to be a physician: he told me he was a licensed physician, had the qualifications to render an opinion about Mr. Jones' health, and that his opinion was that Mr. Jones should not sit for depositions this week. I asked for a signed letter from the physician."

Pattis also said in the motion that he was not authorized to disclose Jones's medical conditions, nor the identity of the physician, though he hopes to be able to disclose that information to the court on an "ex parte" basis.

Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis did not buy the excuse and ordered Jones to be deposed on Wednesday in Texas. While he was claiming a medical condition, Jones was still producing his internet show, The Hour wrote.

Jones was sued by several families of victims who were killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, after Jones claimed it was a hoax. He later claimed he had changed his mind and no longer believed the mass murder was a staged.

The families won the defamation case by default last year, but the planned depositions reportedly were to be about damages.

Read The Hour story; read the News-Times story.