Overview

• Justices denied review without comment and did not seek a response from the Sandy Hook families, an indicator of low interest in the case.
• Jones also failed in an emergency bid to pause enforcement and protect Infowars during the Supreme Court’s consideration.
• Connecticut courts found Jones liable by default for discovery abuses; a 2022 jury set $965 million in compensatory damages and the judge added large punitive damages later partly reduced on appeal.
• Bankruptcy and asset-recovery efforts continue, including liquidation of Jones’s personal assets, a rejected bid by The Onion to buy Infowars, and a Texas receivership that Jones is appealing.
• Jones still faces a separate defamation judgment of about $49–50 million in Texas, which remains on appeal.