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Article: State Supreme Court Blocks Lexington, Ky., Smoking Ban for Three More Months.

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Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 11--Kentucky's highest court stepped into the fray of Lexington's smoking ban yesterday, unanimously blocking the ordinance for an additional three months -- ample time for the debate to be picked up by the state legislature.

The last-minute stay overturned a ruling by an appeals court, which just hours before had agreed to let the ban start today as scheduled. The Court of Appeals had been asked to review a Fayette circuit judge's upholding of the ban, the first of its kind in Kentucky.

But the Supreme Court agreed to settle the appeal directly. The justices set a ...

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