An attorney for Infowars host Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law for six months after a judge determined he gave confidential medical records of Sandy Hook families to people not authorized to have them. were.
Norman Pattis represented Jones in a defamation case in Connecticut brought by several families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. In 2012, a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School killed 26 people, including 20 children.
Barbara Bayliss, a senior court judge in Connecticut, ruled Thursday that Pattis “willfully and willfully disregarded” his obligations to honor a protective order of the court keeping the Sandy Hook families’ medical and mental health records confidential. .
The families’ medical records were reportedly given to several other people involved with Jones’ various legal battles, who were not authorized to access the documents.
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“Sensitive information of the Connecticut Plaintiff that should have been protected and was protected by court order, without a protective order, and without any effort to protect the sensitive Connecticut Plaintiff, was carelessly passed from one unauthorized person to another , confidential documents,” Bayliss said in his ruling.
He added that given Patti’s extensive experience practicing law in Connecticut for nearly thirty years, “there is no acceptable excuse for his misconduct.”
Jones, who falsely claimed that the shooting was a hoax, was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families in the Connecticut case. The Infowars host was also ordered to pay $50 million in damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim in a separate defamation case in Texas.
Source: thehill.com
