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https://www.adn.com/business-econom...-news-editor-in-cocktail-napkin-lawsuit/Good to see her "winning" so much. She did an awful lot to the State in running the paper for the liberals... lots of free advertising, basically. Business/Economy Jury awards $852,000 to former Alaska Dispatch News editor in cocktail napkin lawsuit A jury decided in favor of a former Alaska Dispatch News editor and president in a civil case that centered on a statement written years ago on a cocktail napkin. Jurors awarded Tony Hopfinger $852,752 in a verdict delivered Thursday afternoon in Anchorage Superior Court. Hopfinger filed the lawsuit in 2016 against Alice Rogoff, the former owner of the news operation. He said Rogoff failed to pay him money she promised to him after she had written on the napkin in April 2014: “I agree to pay Tony $100K at end of each calendar year (beginning ’14) for 10 years,” for a total of $1 million. She did make a $100,000 payment to him in 2015. A question central to the court battle was whether the statement on the napkin was enforceable. The jury unanimously found that, while it didn’t technically amount to a contract, it was an enforceable promise. “I think what it does is, it sends a message where there are certain circumstances where justice requires that promises be enforced,” said Jeffrey Robinson, an attorney representing Hopfinger. “That’s what the jury’s verdict represents more than anything. That even if it didn’t technically qualify as a contract, that it certainly should be given full force and effect based on the circumstances in which the parties acted if there was a contract.” An attorney for Rogoff did not immediately return a message and email seeking comment. Hopfinger also declined to comment Thursday afternoon. [Trial begins in cocktail napkin lawsuit between former Alaska Dispatch News owner and editor] Jurors deliberated for about nine hours between Wednesday and Thursday, Robinson said. One claim Hopfinger did not win was a $77,000 claim for severance. During the trial, the opposing sides also disputed what the payments referred to on the napkin were for. Robinson argued that Hopfinger was owed the money as a buyout of his shares in the company. David Gross, an attorney for Rogoff, argued that the 10-year term on the napkin was “to commit Tony to work for the newspaper" for that 10-year period. He also said in the trial that Hopfinger deserved “nothing" in the case. The jury found that “the actual promise was for his shares,” Robinson said Thursday afternoon. In 2008, Hopfinger co-founded a news website, Alaska Dispatch, with his then-wife, Amanda Coyne. The next year, Rogoff bought a majority of Alaska Dispatch Publishing LLC. Alaska Dispatch bought the Anchorage Daily News, a much larger operation, in 2014 from the McClatchy Co., and the name of the merged organization became Alaska Dispatch News. Alaska Dispatch News filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August of 2017. In bankruptcy court, the Binkley family of Fairbanks bought the news operation through a business called Binkley Co., and the name changed back to Anchorage Daily News shortly after. Hopfinger now lives in the Chicago area and has not worked for the newspaper in years. Rogoff said during the trial that she has a house in Anchorage and that Alaska will continue to be her home. The trial started Nov. 14, and attorneys gave their closing statements on Wednesday.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Alice's impersonation of Cris Columbus?
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Poor Alice. 
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Too bad she didn't go down that rabbit hole... and stay.
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Plenty of "rabbit holes" to go down today.
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Go ask Alice when she 10 tall!!!
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Go ask Alice when she 10 tall 800k light!!! Fixt
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 I see what you did there.
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Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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Klever Klik. 
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She should definitely pursue her love of flying...
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 Took me an entire year to stone her house. Glad it was before all her money troubles 
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 Dew you think she'll ever be relevant again, or slip into obscurity?
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 Dew you think she'll ever be relevant again, or slip into obscurity? sorry, missed your line of questioning...
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She should definitely pursue her love of flying... I would chip in for a new plane...
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Cuhnt needs to crawl back into the socialist schitthole she come from.
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 Dew you think she'll ever be relevant again, or slip into obscurity? LOL....old fart...prolly 'fraid of them Ruskies too?
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 I see what you did there. I'm guessing you don't see what he did there. Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 Dew you think she'll ever be relevant again, or slip into obscurity? LOL....old fart...prolly 'fraid of them Ruskies too? There you go, pun acquired.
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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝 Dew you think she'll ever be relevant again, or slip into obscurity? Watching this post from a distance. I believe it too early to decide and answer without more facts. It will happen though, and that with little warning...
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