Sandy Hook

Norm Pattis faces possible discipline after a lawyer for the families revealed that Pattis may have improperly shared confidential psychiatric records and depositions.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, Elizabeth Williamson joins us to discuss her book ‘Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.’

On Friday, a Texas jury ordered Infowars host Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of Jesse Lewis for all of the times he said the Sandy Hook school shooting didn’t happen. Jones has since apologized and admitted the shooting was "100% real," but one survivor says she has mixed feelings after learning the outcome.

A Texas jury on Friday ordered Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which the conspiracy theorist falsely called a hoax orchestrated by the government in order to tighten U.S. gun laws.

A judge has ordered a Texas attorney representing Infowars host Alex Jones for a hearing in a Connecticut court. Jones was sued for defamation in Texas and Connecticut by families of victims killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. An attorney for one family suggested in court this week that Jones’ attorneys shared confidential psychiatric records and depositions of the nine named plaintiffs in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones — records an attorney for the plaintiffs in Texas say Andino Reynal shouldn’t have.

“He didn’t ride a wave. He created the wave,” Bernard Francis Pettingill, Jr. told jurors in Austin. “He is a very successful guy.”

Infowars host Alex Jones is on trial in Texas and Connecticut for saying that the Sandy Hook school shooting never happened. A jury now has the Texas case, while the Connecticut case is in bankruptcy court. Defense teams representing Jones face more problems stemming from a dramatic moment in court Wednesday that featured the appearance of a text message representing the type of record Jones swore he didn’t have.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified Wednesday that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax and that he now believes it was “100% real.”

Proceedings in the Connecticut defamation lawsuit filed on behalf of Sandy Hook families against Infowars host Alex Jones have stopped for now. Jury selection was interrupted when the court was informed that the case against Jones, a conspiracy theorist who said the shooting didn't happen, was being removed to federal bankruptcy court in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

On Tuesday, jury selection begins in a defamation lawsuit filed in Connecticut on behalf of families of the 2012 Newtown school shooting victims against Infowars host Alex Jones. Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis has ordered attorneys to court Tuesday, despite Infowars' parent company filing for bankruptcy.