Judge Christopher Lopez

The Alex Jones Bankruptcy Gambit

04/19/22

 In a widely misunderstood move, Alex Jones and his legal team have put three of his entities that own intellectual property assets into SubChapter V of Chapter 11. The move, if successful, will protect the domain name, infowars.com, and will delay entry of judgments against Jones personally. The move involves apparent forum shopping and clever use of SubChapter V. The cases are jointly administered under Case. No. 22-60020 in the Southern District of Texas, Victoria Division.

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Random Thoughts from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges

10/09/21

I have attended and blogged about this conference for a number of years. I remember being captivated by Paul Begala talking about Barack Obama's belief in American Exceptionalism and Gene Wedoff being honored for his service as a judge. This made me realize that NCBJ is a conference where really interesting people talk about important stuff. 

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