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A Texas judge ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook massacre victims' families more than $1.1 billion for his conspiracy theories that the 2012 shooting was a hoax. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston issued the ruling Thursday. "The families are pleased with the Court’s ruling that Jones’s malicious conduct will find no safe harbor in the bankruptcy court," said lawyer Christopher Mattei, who represents the families. "As a result, Jones will continue to be accountable for his actions into the future regardless of his claimed bankruptcy."

Former Massachusetts Superior Court judge Maria Lopez has a message for her detractors -- especially the local politicians and attorneys who criticized her outspoken behavior on the bench and the sentence of parole she handed down to Charles ``Ebony" Horton for kidnapping and assaulting a child in 2000. Thank you. If there had been no public outcry over Lopez barking at prosecutors, there is a good chance that the judge would have missed the opportunity to become what she calls ``the poster child for the post-menopausal woman" as the star of ``Judge Maria Lopez," a nationally syndicated daytime court show...