Ruling Is Issued On Coretta King's Papers.

A judge in Atlanta ruled Friday that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's daughter must continue to catalog the personal papers of her mother, Coretta Scott King, that are being sought by feuding factions of the King family, The Associated Press reported. The Rev. Bernice King and her brother Martin Luther King III were sued by their brother Dexter King, who wants them to turn over papers for a biography of their mother that the Penguin Group was planning to publish; the book deal, valued at $1.4 million, fell through in October when the King siblings missed a deadline to provide those papers to the book's author, Barbara Reynolds. Once the cataloging of Coretta Scott King's possessions is completed, a judge will rule whether her papers are the property of the Martin Luther King estate, which Dexter King controls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]