U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez ruled Wednesday that Free Speech Systems' assets, parent of Infowars, fall outside Alex Jones' Chapter 7 bankruptcy estate and lack automatic stay protection.

The decision allows Sandy Hook families to seize and liquidate the assets immediately, effectively ordering the shutdown of the long-running, iconic platform.

Lopez's order resolves a contentious emergency motion filed by the families on September 26. They sought confirmation that a 2024 supplemental order vesting Infowars assets in Jones' estate remains invalid due to a February 2025 hearing.

Jones' legal team filed a fiery 27-page response on September 30, blasting the motion as "not an emergency" and a "denial of due process."

The filing accuses plaintiffs of misleading the court by ignoring a June 2025 hearing where Lopez clarified he "could do nothing" to void the order amid an ongoing appeal.

"This Court could not nullify the September Order, did not nullify the September Order and neither could it 'interpret' it as a nullity," Jones' response states, citing Supreme Court precedent on jurisdictional limits during appeals.

It warns nullification would trigger "a catastrophe," forcing the trustee to return millions and unravel settlements.

The document labels the families' tactics an "abuse of the bankruptcy process" driven by a "political ulterior motive of taking a conservative off the air-ways."

Infowars co-host Harrison H. Smith announced the ruling on X: "Judge just greenlit Infowars being shut down."

Jones, in a midday post, called it a "Deep State/Democrat Party's Conspiracy" and shared the response filing, urging supporters to fight the "unprecedented lawfare."

The ordeal traces to 2018 lawsuits after Jones questioned whether the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, which killed 20 children and six educators, was a hoax.

Families won $1.5 billion in defamation judgments across Texas and Connecticut courts by 2022.

Jones filed for personal bankruptcy that December; Infowars' parent followed in July 2022 to shield assets.

Creditors, led by Sandy Hook plaintiffs, have pursued relentless liquidation. A June 2024 bankruptcy order granted the trustee control over Infowars' bank accounts. September's sequel vested assets in the estate.

Appeals delayed enforcement until August 2025, when a Texas state judge appointed a receiver to sell everything, paving the way for satirical outlet The Onion's bid.

Federal appeals, including a May 2025 Texas hearing and pending U.S. Supreme Court certiorari on the Connecticut judgment, offered fleeting hope.

Jones decried the moves as assaults on free speech.

"Plaintiffs' motives are to acquire the FSS assets in order to destroy the Jones and FSS/InfoWars brand and prevent Jones from exercising his constitutional right to freedom of the press," his filing asserts, invoking Fifth Circuit precedent against creditor overreach for political ends.

The ruling caps years of battles that shuttered Jones' Austin studio temporarily in 2023.

He vows to broadcast under a new banner, but Infowars – once a patriotic juggernaut – faces dissolution.

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