Of course the Argus Endorser’s headline is backwards;
Scott suit against Argus settled, dismissed
Good stuff, and it gets better;
Dan Scott, the former director of the Sioux Falls Development Foundation, had claimed that a satirical column in 2007 by then-Executive Editor Randell Beck had damaged his reputation.
Last week, Circuit Judge Bradley Zell signed an order dismissing the case. Lawyers for both sides signed a stipulation stating that the case had been settled “without costs to any party.â€
Yeah, sure, you betcha! As I understand it, there can be all kinds of settlements outside the courtroom. My guess is that Gannett wrote Mr. Scott a big fat check and said, STFU. And that was passed to the judge who said, “They kissed and made up.”
Sources tell me that Scott got more then a parting gift. But, like licking to the center of a Tootsie-Pop “The World may never know.”