Alex Jones' trial is being pushed back as InfoWars seeks out bankruptcy protection.
to decide how much he should pay the families of Sandy Hook victims, because Jones' company sought bankruptcy protection.and Connecticut for claiming the massacre that killed 26 people in 2012 was a hoax.
"Money can't correct the damage that was done. This whole thing, this lawsuit I have, is not about money. It's about holding him accountable for what he did and said," Neil Heslin, the father of one of the victims, said previously. Attorneys for Sandy Hook families have accused Jones of trying to hide millions of dollars in assets.
In the court filing, InfoWars said it had assets of $50,000 or less, and that liabilities could be $1 million to $10 million.FOX 7 asked bankruptcy attorneys about their take on the case. "The case cannot proceed until either the bankrupt debtors are removed from the case or the bankruptcy judge gives permission for the case to go forward," Stephen Sather, Bankruptcy Attorney at Barron & Newburger P.C., said. "This is a very strategic move. They're trying to protect, you know, one piece of the Jones empire, which is the intellectual property of domain names.
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