Jones Bankruptcy Update – Hearing This Afternoon UPDATED
Reminder that the hearing in the Jones bankruptcy hearing is at 3:00 today in Houston federal court. You can listen in.
Telephonic Participation
Dial-in Telephone No: 832-917-1510
Conference Code: 590153
Fair warning, bankruptcy court is about as exciting as golf on teevee in Chinese, so the odds of something you’ll understand happening are pretty damn slim. However, with the type of lawyers that Jones hires, you never know.
You can read some very funny stuff from Above the Law, written in the English language for people who don’t speak lawyerese. And this one is good, too.
That 3:00 Texas time.
Both sets of Jones lawsuits (the one in Texas courts and the one in Connecticut in federal court) will be presenting their views. In short, they both claim this is a bogus bankruptcy meant to stall for time. And, the Jones lawyers probably went judge shopping by setting up a fake office in Victoria, Texas, a more conservative area of Texas.
So, if you’re not doing anything else …it’ll make you hate Jones even more.
UPDATE: It went about as we expected. Jones’s lawyer, who seemed to be proud to be the oldest person in the courtroom simply did not know when to shut up.
And, when the judge reminded those people on video that they are required to behave themselves, a Jones fan wanted to do some free advertising for Jones’s products. Seriously, I am told by highly reliable sources that this was what someone put up instead of their own face.
Alex Jones – the Putin of Austin.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that Jones just got $1 million in Bitcoins.
I was just reading about a term, vexatious litigant – this is someone who has been known to file frivolous lawsuits and a judge puts them on a list: there are 398 in Texas. Now I think we should have an additional term:vexatious defendant, for someone known to lie in multiple courts!
1Hate Alex Jone MORE? Unpossible!
2Drat! How can we begin to ‘miss’ Rush Limbaugh when he left his sock puppet Alex behind?
3Boris Becker, the former tennis star, just got 2 1/2 years for hiding assets when he filed bankruptcy in the UK five years ago. Those people take bankruptcy seriously.
4If there’s a special deeper hole in hell for people who cause unneccessary suffering for parents on earth grieving the loss of a child – – at this point it’s probably named The Alex Jones Pit.
5Putrid Putin of Austin- on steroids. Literally. Both of them I’m thinking and equally evil.
6Bankruptcy courts routinely grant motions allowing pending state court suits to go forward in order to determine liability and damages. Likewise, state courts routinely sever out parties who are in bankruptcy so that the remaining parties can go forward.
But, since the Jones goal seems to be as obstructive as possible (preferably with publicity), I wouldn’t be surprised to see a series of bankruptcy filings by the other defendants, perhaps even in different districts.
We have a pretty strong bankruptcy bench in Texas. They’re not going to put up with a whole lot of guff.
7Eeek! You should have warned us before that pic, I could have spit out my beer!
8Now I know who supplies Trump with his spray on bronzer.
9Possibly the best line in one of those fine articles you cited, Miss JJ, describing one of the lawyer’s machinations –
“Ipso facto expecto patronum”.
10Wouldn’t it be lovely to see dump and jones next door to each other in any manner of prison?
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