Overview
- Jones told the Court a stay is needed to prevent creditors from seizing InfoWars for a possible transfer to The Onion, noting a previous bankruptcy judge refused to approve an Onion purchase.
- The Connecticut case resulted in roughly $1.44 billion in damages after a jury awarded $965 million and a judge added $474 million in punitive damages over Jones’s false hoax claims.
- His emergency application, handled initially by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, accompanies a pending petition for review that the Court scheduled to discuss at its Oct. 10 conference.
- Jones has lost prior state-court appeals and pursued bankruptcy protections for himself and Free Speech Systems, while also facing a separate Texas judgment of nearly $50 million.
- He frames his appeal as raising First Amendment issues and argues that without a stay he will suffer irreparable harm, whereas the families have told the Court they will respond only if requested.