A Texas court has slashed a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to just $1.5 million.Jones was ordered to pay $50 million to parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after falsely claiming it was a hoax.On Friday, an appeals court ruled that the trial court “abused its discretion” by allowing the judgement to exceed a statutory cap on damages.The ruling does not affect a $1.4 billion judgement against Jones in Connecticut, which the US Supreme Court declined to overturn. But it marks a significant legal victory for Jones after he and his company, Free Speech Systems, were found liable for damages for claiming the mass shooting didn’t happen.Jones’ trial attorney Andino Reynal had said he would appeal the damages amount and predicted shortly after trial that he could get it reduced to $1.5 million (Getty)The unanimous opinion by the Texas Third Court of Appeals on Friday found that Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis did not show evidence that harassment enflamed by Jones’ hoax claims rose to a level that would allow them to exceed the state’s $750,000 cap on damages.Heslin and Lewis’s 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was among 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Connecticut. The lawsuit and 2022 verdict against Jones marked the first time Jones was held financially liable for peddling lies about the massacre.Jones repeatedly told his millions of followers that the 2012 massacre was staged by “crisis actors” to enact more gun control.During the trial for damages, families testified that they were subjected to death threats and harassment from Jones’ supporters. Jones’ trial attorney Andino Reynal had said he would appeal the damages amount and predicted shortly after trial that he could get it reduced to $1.5 million.Jones and his company have filed for bankruptcy, and those legal proceedings continue.