Last year we recognized the good work that litigators at Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison have been doing in Connecticut for families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown.

Part of that work includes litigating against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who for years claimed the shooting was a hoax by the government. Last week the Connecticut team and lawyers pursuing parallel claims in Texas got key wins from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston who found that Jones cannot use his bankruptcy filing to discharge debts accrued through “willful and malicious injury” to the families. 

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]