INEZ — An eastern Kentucky newspaper will be able to continue publishing unhindered by a local official who had been the subject of critical coverage.

        Judge Daniel Sparks dissolved an order Wednesday that prohibited the Mountain Citizen from publishing under its own name.

        Judge Sparks said he will decide later whether to hold three journalists in contempt for continuing to publish the newspaper in violation of his earlier order.

        “This is a victory for us,” said Lisa Stayton, the paper's owner. “I went to court prepared to go to jail, so this is a great relief.”

        Judge Sparks had ordered the Mountain Citizen, a weekly newspaper in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields, to stop using its name after Inez attorney John R. Triplett claimed its corporate identity.

        Mr. Triplett, former chairman of the Martin County Water Board, took the paper's corporate name after Ms. Stayton inadvertently let incorporation papers lapse.

        Publisher Roger Smith contends that Mr. Triplett wanted to silence the newspaper because it had published stories about problems with Martin County's water treatment system.

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