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A Texas appeals court reduced a roughly $50 million defamation judgment against Alex Jones, stemming from a 2022 trial in which he was found liable by default for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, down to an amount between about $1.5 million and $6 million depending on the case. The reduction, based on a Texas damages cap, does not affect separate judgments exceeding $1 billion that Jones still owes in other related cases, including one in Connecticut.
Framed as a significant legal victory for Alex Jones, while emphasizing that the reduction does not affect the much larger $1.4bn/$1bn+ judgments he still owes across other cases, including the Connecticut case.
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Reports the judgment reduction factually, describing Jones as a right-wing political commentator and conspiracy theorist found liable by default for defamation, with less emphasis on the remaining larger judgments he owes.