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Maya Yang and agencies

Judge blocks Sandy Hook families’ settlement over Alex Jones bankruptcy

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Alex Jones speaks outside court in Waterbury, Connecticut in 2022. Photograph: Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images

A bankruptcy judge has blocked a proposed settlement between the families of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting victims who sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false remarks about the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school.

On Wednesday, judge Christopher Lopez of the US bankruptcy court for the southern district of Texas said he was unable to approve the proposed settlement between the families and Jones’s bankruptcy trustee. Lopez claimed that their efforts to divide Jones’s assets exceeded his court’s authority.

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