NO.

X06-UWY-CV-18-6046436 S : SUPERIOR COURT

ERICA LAFFERTY, ET AL : COMPLEX LITIGATION DOCKET

V. : AT WATERBURY

ALEX EMRIC JONES, ET AL : JUNE 17, 2019

NO. X06-UWY-CV-18-6046437 S : SUPERIOR COURT

WILLIAM SHERLACH : COMPLEX LITIGATION DOCKET

V. : AT WATERBURY

ALEX EMRIC JONES, ET AL : JUNE 17, 2019

NO. X06-UWY-CV-18-6046438 S : SUPERIOR COURT

WILLIAM SHERLACH, ET AL : COMPLEX LITIGATION DOCKET

V. : AT WATERBURY

ALEX EMRIC JONES, ET AL : JUNE 17, 2019

JONES DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

The defendants respectfully request that the Court stay all proceedings in the

above captioned cases.

On June 14, 2019, undersigned counsel appeared on The Alex Jones Show,

alongside the defendant in this case, Alex Jones. Mr. Jones became impassioned

about the recent revelations that child pornography was found amongst the metadata

that was disclosed to the plaintiffs in this case. Mr. Jones made direct reference to

plaintiffs’ counsel Attorney Christopher Mattei during this broadcast. As a result of that

broadcast the plaintiffs have alleged inequities against Mr. Jones in their - “Motion for

Review of Broadcast by Alex Jones Threatening Plaintiffs’ Counsel.” Additionally, the

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plaintiffs allege inequities against undersigned counsel, citing a lack of “due diligence”

resulting in plaintiffs’ counsel and their data analytics firm in jeopardy of being charged

with a “serious federal crime.”

The failure of plaintiffs’ counsel to address their request for the email “metadata,”

which was made orally at a hearing before undersigned counsel filed their appearance,

until after months of resources had been expended in providing them the corresponding

messages in readable PDF format; coupled with expedited discovery; and near weekly

report backs to the Court resulted in the emails containing these illegal images being

inadvertently turned over to plaintiffs’ counsel. The plaintiffs had the resources to

contract with a sophisticated data analytics firm to review this indecipherable metadata.

Unfortunately, these tools and financial resources are not available to the defendants.

On June 16, 2019, Mr. Jones issued a public apology to Attorney Mattei on his

InfoWars program. https://www.infowars.com/exclusive-alex-jones-responds-to-sandy-

hook-child-porn-set-up/. Mr. Jones apologized for the statements he made the previous

days broadcast saying, “I’m not saying that the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families set

this up or did this.”

The plaintiffs’ allegations have raised serious issues concerning conflicts

of interest in this case between the Jones defendants and undersigned counsel. Rule

of Professional Conduct 1.7 states that: “a lawyer shall not represent a client if the

representation involves a concurrent conflict of interest.” Therefore, in order to ensure

that undersigned can continue to represent the defendants within the ethical duties

proscribed by the Rules of Professional conduct, an investigation must be conducted.

Undersigned counsel has already begun this process. However, undersigned counsel

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feels that these issues must be addressed before the above captioned cases proceed

any further, in order to protect the interests of all parties involved.

Alex Jones;
Infowars, LLC;
Free Speech Systems, LLC;
Infowars Health, LLC; and,
Prison Planet, LLC
BY:/s/ Norman A. Pattis/s/
Norman A. Pattis, Their Attorney
PATTIS & SMITH, LLC
Juris No. 423934
383 Orange Street,
New Haven, Ct 06511
V: 203-393-3017,F: 203-393-9745
npattis@pattisandsmith.com

ORDER

The foregoing motion having been heard, it is hereby ordered:

GRANTED/DENIED.

BY THE COURT,

________________________
JUDGE/CLERK

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 CERTIFICATION

This is to certify that a copy of the foregoing has been emailed and/or mailed, this 17th

day of June 2019 to:

Wolfgang Halbig-TO BE MAILED

25526 Haws Run Lane
Sorrento, FL 32776
wolfgang.halbig@comcast.net

Lawrence L. Connelli, Esq.

Regnier Taylor Curran & Eddy
100 Pearl Street, 4th Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
LConnelli@rtcelaw.com

Stephen P. Brown, Esq.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
1010 Washington Blvd, 8th Floor
Stamford, Ct 06901
stephen.brown@wilsonelser.com

Genesis Communications Network, Inc.

c/o Ted Anderson
190 Cobblestone Lane
Burnsville, MN 55337
t.anderson@gcnlive.com

Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, PC

330 Fairfield Ave.
Bridgeport, CT 06604
asterling@koskoff.com
cmattei@koskoff.com
/s/Norman A. Pattis /s/