Alex Jones

On October 14, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Alex Jones’s appeal seeking to overturn a roughly $1.4 billion defamation judgment tied to his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. 

This refusal leaves in place the ruling against Jones and his media enterprise, Infowars, and paves the way for the Sandy Hook families to pursue enforcement and collection of the damages awarded.

Jones had argued that the financial burden imposed on him amounted to a “financial death penalty” and that he deserved protections under the First Amendment similar to journalists. His legal …