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I think that is grossly excessive.
by Overtonwindow 4y ago
I think that is grossly excessive.
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoDespite my strong belief that he be strongly punished for his lies, I agree with you. It's so over the top that it discredits the whole process for me.
- AlexandrB 4y agoI think you should look at the theatrics Alex engaged in during the trial as well as his repeated failure to provide documents during discovery. He was arguably incompetently represented[1] (Infowars is probably going to sue their lawyer[2]) while treating the trial(s) as both a joke or a conspiracy against him. With that kind of behaviour, I'm not sure what kind of outcome he expected - him and his legal team failed to mount a serious defence of his actions. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-lawyers-accidentally-leak-years-emails-infowars-financial-d-rcna41378 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-lawyers-acci... [2] https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/alex-jones-turning-own-lawyers-085036428.html https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/alex-jones-turning-own-lawyers-0...
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoI am explicitly not siding with Alex Jones in any way.
- AlexandrB 4y agoNot saying that you are. But if Alex tried to make a mockery of the litigation he was facing why is the outcome disproportionate in your opinion? Didn't he undermine the process with his own actions here?
- entiex 4y agoThey're compensatory damages, not puntive damages. His trial behavior should be completely irrelevant, as should his level of wealth for that matter.
- advisedwang 4y agoYou think he should be fined less. That is siding with him in result.
- int_19h 4y agoThey're saying that the compensation for damage ought to be less. This doesn't say anything about punitive damages, however.
- colesantiago 4y agoI think that it is not grossly excessive enough.
- guywithahat 4y agoThe argument is that his supporters harassed sandy hook victims, to my knowledge nobody was hurt and certainly nobody died from the harassment. If this isn't enough, what would be enough? And what would be appropriate compensation if he had encouraged violence against them/etc?
- timbit42 4y agoNo one was physically hurt but they were certainly hurt psychologically and financially.
- advisedwang 4y agoInfowars has $53MM of revenue, so this is 20 years of revenue for knowing, persistant and harmful actions and then misconduct during trial. For comparision, 20 years of income for the median american is less than a million dollars. I think million dollar damages are common even just for negligence, let alone this severity.
- _-david-_ 4y agoRevenue is pretty much useless to determine how much money they have. If the revenue was $53,000,000 it is possible they spent $52,999,999.99 of the money on expenses to get that $53 million.
- Ekaros 4y agoBy like factor of million or hundred million. Just goes to show that justice system there is utterly broken and the juries are useless or malicious.