Judge Rules Sandy Hook Families Can Depose Alex Jones

NEWTOWN, CT —A Connecticut judge ruled Wednesday afternoon that InfoWars host Alex Jones must submit to a sworn deposition in a defamation case brought against him by several family members of Sandy Hook victims. The Superior Court in Bridgeport also ruled that the families can depose several other defendants in the case, including those critical to InfoWars’ business operations.

In court papers filed Monday, Jones’ attorney argued that the families’ request to depose his client was only meant to “harass, burden, and oppress him.” Jones' team has already moved to have the lawsuits dismissed, and also to hold the trial as far from Sandy Hook as possible, in the interest of a fair trial.

Earlier this month, Jones and his co-defendants were ordered to surrender internal financial, business and marketing documents related to InfoWars as part of the same case and, earlier this week, the Connecticut Supreme Court denied Jones’ appeal of that decision.

The plaintiffs in the case, Lafferty v. Jones et. al., are the Sandy Hook families and an FBI agent who investigated the shooting. They allege, according to a statement released after the ruling today by their attorneys, that "Jones knowingly peddled false and malicious narratives in order to make money at the expense of the Sandy Hook families’ grief, safety and security" and that Jones' actions subjected them to "physical confrontations and harassment, death threats and personal attacks on social media."