Alex Jones’ Infowars company secured temporary relief staving off a Texas state court order appointing a receiver to administer the conspiracy theorist’s conservative media empire.
A Texas appeals court on Thursday issued a brief pause of an Aug. 13 order that assigned a receiver to take over and sell the possessions of Infowars parent Free Speech Systems LLC as it weighs the company’s request to fully overturn the lower court ruling.
The families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, which have been fighting a pitched battle with Jones in multiple courts over his failure to satisfy roughly $1.3 billion in defamation judgments, have until Sept. 15 to file a response to Free Speech’s appeal, the Texas Court of Appeals for the Third District said.
The appeals court issued its temporary stay just a day after Jones’ company filed an emergency request arguing that the receivership appointment is procedurally defective and violates the jurisdiction of a bankruptcy court overseeing Jones’ Chapter 7 case.
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of the Travis County District Court appointed Gregory S. Milligan of Harney Partners at the request of families that won a more than $1 billion state court judgment in Connecticut against Jones and his company for repeatedly calling the 2012 massacre of students and teachers a hoax.
The families sought relief in state court amid lengthy delays in Jones’ personal bankruptcy case in Houston, which is being administered by Chapter 7 trustee Christopher Murray.
Free Speech’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy was dismissed last year, but Judge Christopher Lopez of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas gave Murray control of its property that includes its assets and bank accounts.
Lopez last year denied the trustee’s attempt to sell Infowars’ assets to satirical news website The Onion.
Free Speech is represented by Jordan & Ortiz PC and Broocks Law Firm PLLC. The families holding judgments in Connecticut are represented by Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC and Cain & Skarnulis PLLC.
The case is Free Speech Systems LLC v. Neil Heslin, Tex. App., 3d Dist., No. 03-25-00617-CV, order 8/28/25.
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