JoAnne Sweeny: Alex Jones has received what is likely to be only the first of a series of expensive lessons about the importance of fact-checking. - NBCNewsTHINK
that the case should be dismissed because he was speaking on a matter of public concern, and his speech should therefore be protected under the First Amendment. Second, he argued that his statements against the Sandy Hook families were mere opinions and therefore couldn’t be defamatory. Heboth of these arguments largely on procedural grounds because he refused to produce documents to the plaintiff’s attorneys despite a very clear court order.
before it sent the case back to the trial court whose jury determined the payout. In response to Heslin’s claim of defamation, which rested on Jones’ statements being provably false, Jones argued that his statements were not defamatory because he was just stating his opinion and not a false statement of fact.
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