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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.



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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.


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Alice's impersonation of Cris Columbus?


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Poor Alice. smile


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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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Originally Posted by Whelenman
Go ask Alice when she 10 tall 800k light!!!


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Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝


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Originally Posted by Klikitarik
Poor White Alice, she’s such an antiquated has-been. 😝

I see what you did there.


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She should definitely pursue her love of flying...


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Originally Posted by Klikitarik
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 grin


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Originally Posted by Klikitarik
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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Originally Posted by LoadClear
Originally Posted by Klikitarik
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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Originally Posted by AcesNeights
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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Originally Posted by LoadClear
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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? wink

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Originally Posted by Sitka deer
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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.
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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? wink



There you go, pun acquired.


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Originally Posted by LoadClear
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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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Originally Posted by bearhuntr
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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...


Is it too late to repent? 😬. Argg, what hath I started? 😇


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Bet she wished that she'd flown under the RADAR.

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I'm trying to find a way to fit "AN/FPS-19" into the spirit of this, but I'm not having any light bulbs.


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AN/TCC-7 or AN/TRC-24 Would fit better.

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Originally Posted by Klikitarik
Originally Posted by bearhuntr
Originally Posted by LoadClear
Originally Posted by Klikitarik
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...


Is it too late to repent? 😬. Argg, what hath I started? 😇

A neat thing and a walk down memory lane methinks, Klik😀
That work is what brought my family up here in the winter of 58/59. Twas tough getting drug out of Wyoming (F. E. Warren) on short notice and flown up here. Once I saw the place I quit kicking and screaming and said “ok, this place is not to bad”😉
Got to see lots of country since then and am ready to see more still...


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