Did he expect his lawyers to act for free?
You missed the point. The jury awarded him more than the law allowed for those types of law suits. He was given the legal maximum.
Of course not. But the award was reduced by statute and the attorney fees were deducted from that. (As I understand it. I was not involved in the final settlement.)
Among the items in Alex Jones’s phone that were sent to the Texas plaintiffs’ lawyer were the medical records of the parents suing him in Connecticut. The Connecticut judge wants an explanation from Jones’s Connecticut lawyer as to how those record got sent to Jones’s Texas lawyer.
I have one–
It’s incompetent lawyers all the way down!
Or, alternately–
Both lawyers are secret agents from the Deep State, and their purpose is to discredit Jones.
“your honor, we were merely sending confidential medical records to our colleague in another state, who had no legal reason to have them. We wanted him to be able to discredit the parents of a dead child by smearing them. I hope this answers your questions fully.”
What I’m wondering is how did Jones’s Connecticut lawyer get those records in the first place.
That’s part of what the hearing is about.
If Attorneys for the families were trying to establish damages that their clients suffered, they might have disclosed medical records showing physical health problems or mental health treatment. But those would have been shared under strict rules of confidentiality, since they are so personal.
My favorite part of this whole proceeding is plaintiff’s council’s “indeed!”, when he drops the phone bomb on Jones. Almost Monty Burns.
He really should have tented his fingers together and said “Eeeexcellent!”
“You Honor, did you notice the absolute shitshow we made of trying to comply with discovery last week? Same way!”
I thought that part was more deliberate shennanigans. Bring the Texas lawyer on as co-counsel to share the records, then remove him again.
Jones lawyer pleads the Fifth.
As this is a civil proceeding, does adverse inference apply?
In the particulars of this situation, I feel like this is pretty equivalent to saying, “I literally and simply have no case to make in my defense.”
“Since when is it illegal to be a dumbfuck?”
I don’t think that that plea is going to go over very well with the Connecticut state bar.
He’s going to need to find a new career path.
Fast food places need staff badly.
Though I’m not sure I’d want to eat anything he prepared, he’d probably neglect to cook it.
He’ll give your food to other people.