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Old 08-06-2018, 11:36 AM  
Busty2
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One of two against this idiot for his Sandy Hook remarks

4/16/2018 10:16 AMVelva L. Price
District Clerk Travis County
D-1-GN-18-001835 Selina Hamilton
IN DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS
PLAINTIFF’S ORIGINAL PETITION AND REQUEST FOR DISCLOSURE
Plaintiff NEIL HESLIN files this original petition against Defendants, ALEX JONES, INFOWARS, LLC, FREE SPEECH SYSTEMS, LLC, and OWEN SHROYER, and alleges as follows:
DISCOVERY CONTROL PLAN
1. Plaintiff intends to seek a customized discovery control plan under Level 3 of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 190.4.
PARTIES
2. Plaintiff Neil Heslin in an individual residing in the State of Connecticut.
3. Defendant Alex E. Jones is a resident of Austin, Texas. He is the host of
radio and web-based news programing, including “The Alex Jones Show,” and he owns and operates the website InfoWars.com. Mr. Jones can be served at his place of business, InfoWars, 3019 Alvin Devane Blvd., Suite 300-350, Austin, TX 78741.
CAUSE NO. _____________
NEIL HESLIN, § Plaintiff § § VS. § § ALEX E. JONES, INFOWARS, LLC, § FREE SPEECH SYSTEMS, LLC, and § OWEN SHROYER, § Defendants §
261ST
D-1-GN-18-001835
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4. Defendant InfoWars, LLC is a Texas limited liability company with principal offices located in Austin, Texas. It may be served at the address of its attorney, Eric Taube, at 100 Congress Avenue, 18th Floor, Austin, TX 78701.
5. Defendant Free Speech Systems, LLC is a Texas limited liability company with principal offices located in Austin, Texas. It may be served at the address of its registered agent, Eric Taube, at 100 Congress Avenue, 18th Floor, Austin, TX 78701.
6. Defendant Owen Shroyer is an individual residing in Travis County. At all times relevant to this suit, Mr. Daniels has been a reporter for InfoWars. Mr. Shroyer can be served at the address of his employer, InfoWars, 3019 Alvin Devane Blvd., Suite 300-350, Austin, TX 78741.
JURISDICTION & VENUE
7. The damages sought in this case exceed the minimum jurisdictional limits of Travis County District Courts.
8. Venue is proper in Travis County, Texas, because a suit for damages for defamation may be brought in the county in which a defendant resided at the time of filing, or the domicile of any corporate defendant, at the election of the plaintiff. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §15.017.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
9. Plaintiff Neil Heslin is the father of deceased minor J.L., a victim of the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting.
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10. This case arises out of accusations by InfoWars in the summer of 2017 that Plaintiff was lying about whether he actually held his son’s body and observed a bullet hole in his head. This heartless and vile act of defamation re-ignited the Sandy Hook “false flag” conspiracy and tore open the emotional wounds that Plaintiff has tried so desperately to heal.
11. This conspiracy theory, which has been pushed by InfoWars and Mr. Jones since the day of the shooting, alleges that the Sandy Hook massacre did not happen, or that it was staged by the government and concealed using actors, and that the parents of the victims are participants in a horrifying cover-up.
12. During the June 18, 2017 profile of Jones for her NBC show Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly, Ms. Kelly interviewed Plaintiff about the claims made by Jones in the past, including that “the whole thing was fake” and “a giant hoax.”1 Addressing this hateful lie, Plaintiff told Kelly, “I lost my son. I buried my son. I held my son with a bullet hole through his head.”2
13. On June 26, 2017, InfoWars’ broadcast featured a segment hosted by reporter Owen Shroyer in which Shroyer claimed to have reviewed evidence showing it was impossible for Plaintiff to have held his son and see his injury.
14. During the broadcast, Shroyer said, “The statement [Plaintiff] made, fact-checkers on this have said cannot be accurate. He’s claiming that he held his son
1 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...lex_jones.html 2 Id.
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and saw the bullet hole in his head. That is his claim. Now, according to a timeline of events and a coroner’s testimony, that is not possible.”3
15. As support for these defamatory statements, Shroyer played video footage where the local medical examiner informed reporters that the slain students were initially identified using photographs rather than in person.
16. Shroyer also stated, “You would remember if you held your dead kid in your hands with a bullet hole. That’s not something you would just misspeak on.”4
17. Stroyer continued by stating that Plaintiff was “making a pretty extreme claim that would be a very thing vivid in your memory, holding his dead child.”5
18. “The conspiracy theorists on the internet out there have a lot of questions are that are yet to be answered. You say whatever you want about the event, that’s just a fact.”6
19. At the conclusion of his report, Shroyer stated, “Will there be a clarification from Heslin or Megyn Kelly? I wouldn’t hold your breath. [Laugh]. So now they’re fueling the conspiracy theory claims. Unbelievable.”7
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