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by FreakLegion 1377 days ago
Note that these are state laws. The Alex Jones judgment still has to wind its way through appeals, but like you say there's a good chance the cap will be protected by the Texas Constitution.

Ohio (Oberlin) has a similar cap, but not necessarily the same protection for it. Missouri for example also had a cap, but it was held to violate the Missouri Constitution in 2014.

The Missouri case[1] came up last month post-Alex Jones, and its "separation of powers" argument is interesting. There's a professor at Georgetown who thinks a similar argument could succeed in Texas[2], but Texas at least tried to amend their Constitution to allow the cap[3].

1. https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=77893

2. https://twitter.com/HeidiLiFeldman/status/155561806384372121...

3. https://twitter.com/EricColumbus/status/1555919948807028736, but the seven replies at https://twitter.com/HeidiLiFeldman/status/155594159820624691... find some flaws in the implementation