BRIDGEPORT — Lawyers for survivors of some of the Sandy Hook School shooting victims, who are plaintiffs in an ongoing defamation lawsuit against internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, are seeking to have Jones disclose his firm’s internal e-mails about the December 2012 incident during which a gunman shot and killed 26 people at the school.

While Jones has turned over some of the documents that have been requested by the plaintiffs, no in-house Infowars e-mails concerning the shooting incident have been turned over to the plaintiffs, according to a March 25 court motion filed by lawyers for the plaintiffs. Also, requested marketing and business plan documents have not been produced, according to those lawyers.

“The only reasonable conclusion is that despite the court’s repeated orders, the Jones defendants are withholding the non-public documents which will reveal admissions by Alex Jones, how they handled their Sandy Hook broadcasts, and their business/marketing plan,” according to the motion by the plaintiffs’ lawyers.

Infowars host Alex Jones is being sued for characterizing the shooting incident as a hoax. Judge Barbara Bellis is presiding. On his Infowars internet program, Jones has claimed that the shooting incident was staged by paid actors who faked 20 first-graders’ deaths.

In a March 21 motion, attorney Norman Pattis, representing Mr Jones, sought a time extension to produce the information sought by the plaintiffs.

In that motion, Mr Pattis wrote, “The focus of this litigation should not be on what Mr Jones said and why he said it. The focus should be on what conditions in American life make the sorts of conspiracy theories he is alleged to have advanced so popular to millions of listeners. The answer is simple: there is a broad crisis of legitimacy afoot in the United States. Legitimacy won’t be restored by silencing the unorthodox.”

“The marketplace of ideas is where speech is tested. It has long since been that way in the United States,” Mr Pattis added.

Judge Bellis has ruled that the lawyers for the families can take depositions from Jones in preparing for a potential trial of the case.

The next scheduled activity in the lawsuit is a status conference slated for April 2.