The ruling will allow the conspiracy theorist to continue broadcasting on Infowars, while the Sandy Hook families pursue payment of $1.4 billion in defamation damages.
It was supposed to shut him up. The money was a hill he was supposed to be buried under. There was no way on god's green earth he was coming up with those funds, everything with his name attached should have perished but now he gets to keep spouting off.
It wasn't about the money to the people suing him, it was about getting some sort of justice, any sort of justice, for what he did to them. And it was all they could legally do about it.
More importantly it removes the federal bankruptcy protection for the company and allows the families to pursue execution of the judgments in state court.
But it removes the ability to liquidate the company to pay off the personal debts as part of the restructuring of the bankruptcy. This is kinda exactly what Alex Jones wanted to happen. Now it's a race.