{"id":97655,"date":"2024-12-11T00:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T08:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2024\/12\/11\/alex-joness-lawyer-objects-to-entering-his-clients-words-into-the-record\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T00:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T08:05:19","slug":"alex-joness-lawyer-objects-to-entering-his-clients-words-into-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2024\/12\/11\/alex-joness-lawyer-objects-to-entering-his-clients-words-into-the-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones\u2019s Lawyer Objects To Entering His Client\u2019s Words Into The Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe post Alex Jones\u2019s Lawyer Objects To Entering His Client\u2019s Words Into The Record appeared first on Above the Law.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The never-ending Alex Jones bankruptcy story continues this afternoon in a Texas courtroom. As of this writing, the shitposter\u2019s lawyers are challenging Chapter 7 Trustee Christopher Murray\u2019s selection of Global Tetrahedron, the parent company of \u201cThe Onion,\u201d as the winning bidder of the auction for Free Speech Systems.<\/p>\n

As with most Jones productions, it\u2019s a shitshow. His lawyer spent several minutes objecting to the admission of documents Jones himself signed and submitted to the court in this case<\/em>. Judge Christopher Lopez, who has sounded exhausted by the Jones cases for more than year (and he\u2019s been at this shit since April of 2022), admitted them, but not for the authenticity thereof.<\/p>\n

Jones recently fired his longtime counsel Vickie Driver, replacing her<\/a> with experienced bankruptcy lawyer Shelby Jordan. Jordan immediately turned around and sued<\/a> Murray, Global Tetrahedraon, and even the Sandy Hook parents themselves.<\/p>\n

The complaint<\/a> alleged gross malfeasance by the trustee, attacked the underlying state court judgments, and insisted that the sale of the IP assets was definitionally illegal:<\/p>\n

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Mr. Jones has property rights in the Jones IP Rights, which he brings this action to both obtain a declaration of ownership of, and to protect through injunctive relief against anyone\u2019s unauthorized use thereof, including without limitation, Alex Jones\u2019s unique and personal name, image, likeness, unique voice, and\/or other personal identifying attributes associated with Alex Jones which belong to him personally and cannot be sold. Among other things, consumers will suffer massive market confusion if his personal rights are marketed by anyone other than himself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jordan made clear that this claim extended to cover the Infowars back catalog to include any recording that included Jones\u2019s name, image, or voice. He also filed an objection to the sale<\/a> repeating his scurrilous allegations against Murray.<\/p>\n

Within hours Murray docketed a blistering response<\/a> noting that \u201cThe Debtor does not own the assets the Trustee seeks to sell pursuant to the Sale Motion, they are property of FSS and his personal bankruptcy estate\u2014which he notably failed to include on his sworn Schedules notwithstanding being given multiple opportunities to amend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specifically, on June 28, 2024, just after he converted his case from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, Jones signed and docketed a schedule<\/a> of all his assets and debts. And when asked<\/a> to declare any \u201cPatents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property, Examples: Internet domain names, websites, proceeds from royalties and licensing,\u201d he checked the box that said \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is beyond peradventure that Jones was required to schedule the FSS IP Assets if, as he contends, they are his property\u2014and indeed, so personal to him that they cannot be owned by another,\u201d Murray argued, observing that \u201cHe takes a different position now in an unsworn pleading because it is expedient for him to do so. Concealment of assets and such gamesmanship is strictly prohibited under the Bankruptcy Code and related laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that schedule\u00a0is the document Jordan objected to entering into evidence at this afternoon\u2019s hearing during Murray\u2019s direct examination on the topic of how he structured the assets for the sale.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Murray testified that The Onion agreed to take Alex Jones\u2019s personal handles out of the auction so they could stop wasting time on this dumb issue. And the lawyers for Ex-Twitter said yesterday that the dispute over the sale of the personal social media handles had been resolved by stipulation (dashing the hopes of the Infowars fans who had been led to believe that Elon Musk was going to ride to the rescue).<\/p>\n

This evening, Jordan will get to yell at Murray for a couple hours on cross. And then \u2014 god willin\u2019 and the crick don\u2019t rise!<\/em> \u2014 this nonsense will be over. Drink!<\/p>\n

Alexander E. Jones and Official Committee Of Unsecured Creditors\u00a0<\/a>[Docket via Court Listener]<\/p>\n

Liz Dye<\/a>\u00a0lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos\u00a0substack<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not an Onion headline. The post Alex Jones\u2019s Lawyer Objects To Entering His Client\u2019s Words Into The Record appeared first on Above the Law. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images) The never-ending Alex Jones bankruptcy story continues this afternoon in a Texas courtroom. As of this writing, the shitposter\u2019s lawyers are challenging Chapter 7 Trustee Christopher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":97656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/alex-jones-GettyImages-1027117806-xATbtt.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}