Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis reprimanded an attorney representing Alex Jones in a lawsuit brought by the families of the victims in the Sandy Hook school shooting, finding he persisted in asking a witness to search his cellphone during a deposition, even immediately after she ruled the request was “not appropriate.”

The issue was whether the deponent was required to search his personal phone for documents responsive to a request for production in a subpoena, when no request for production or inspection of the phone had been served, Bellis said in her ruling, issued Friday.

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