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At issue are highly confidential medical and psychiatric records of the parents and relatives of Sandy Hook school shooting victims who are suing Alex Jones for millions of dollars in Connecticut, claiming they were defamed and suffered emotional distress as a result of the conspiracy theorist’s repeated assertions that the December 2012 massacre was a hoax.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Monday cleared the way for a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut to proceed against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Judge Barbara Bellis ordered the first hearing, on a date to be determined next week, to focus on what role, if any, Jones’s Connecticut lawyer played in in the disclosure of what she said could involve medical and psychiatric records of the relatives of victims who sued over Jones’ broadcast assertions that the massacre was a hoax.