A legal grudge match over the sale of a newspaper group has been resolved.
On one side is David Phillips, the former owner of six small-town newspapers in southeast Minnesota. On the other side: Jason Sethre, owner and publisher of the Fillmore County Journal, who bought and closed those newspapers in 2020.
Sethre felt Phillips acted in bad faith and violated the terms of the sale when Phillips gave an old computer to a former employee, who used its files to start her own competing newspaper in Chatfield. So Sethre decided in 2021 not to pay Phillips the $78,000 Phillips was owed as part of the sale for a three-year consulting gig.
Phillips lawyered up and sued Sethre; the two have battled it out in court ever since.
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