Overview
- The justices declined to hear Jones’s petition and issued the denial without seeking a response from the Sandy Hook families, leaving lower-court rulings in place.
- The Connecticut case reached a roughly $1.4 billion total after a 2022 jury set $965 million in compensatory damages and the judge added substantial punitive awards following a default liability finding for discovery abuses.
- Jones remains in bankruptcy as courts and a Texas receivership battle over Infowars and Free Speech Systems assets after a prior auction result naming The Onion was voided by a judge.
- Attorneys for the families praised the ruling and said they will pursue collection, while how much can ultimately be recovered remains unclear and Jones has not paid so far.
- Jones still faces a separate Texas defamation judgment of about $49–50 million that remains on appeal.