<p><em>This article is part of <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe">TPM Cafe</a>, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at <a href="https://theconversation.com/alex-jones-loses-sandy-hook-case-but-important-defamation-issues-remain-unresolved-171914">The Conversation.</a></em></p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/alex-jones-sandy-hook.html">A Connecticut judge has found Alex Jones, a well-known media personality, liable</a> in the defamation claim brought against him by parents of 6- and 7-year-old children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre for falsely claiming they were accomplices in faking the murders of their own children.</p> <p>Like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/us/alex-jones-lawsuit-sandy-hook.html">an earlier decision in a Texas court</a> brought by different parents, the court entered a “<a href="https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=460">default judgment</a>,” which means that Jones lost for failure to put on a defense to the parents’ suit. But the fact that the parents’ claims were not fully litigated means that important issues in the law of defamation remain unresolved.</p>
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