The Supreme Court has thrown out a last-ditch appeal by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, locking in a $1.4 billion judgment over his Sandy Hook hoax lies.

Jones had asked the justices to undo a Connecticut case that ended in a rare default ruling after he blew discovery deadlines and court orders. A jury hit him with $964 million—followed by $473 million in punitive damages—over years of smears that the 2012 massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators was staged by “crisis actors.”

The Court on Tuesday declined to comment and did not even request a response from the Sandy Hook families, leaving intact a judgment among the largest in U.S. libel history

Jones was asking the court to pause a lower-court judgment that would require him to pay more than $1.4 billion.

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