Court upholds new city term limits

Los Angeles City Council members can run for three terms, according to a court ruling Thursday that upheld the ballot measure that allowed council members to serve for 12 years instead of eight. Daily News.

Angelenos passed Measure R with nearly 60 percent of the vote in November 2006. Since then, North Hollywood resident David Hernandez has sought to overturn the law, arguing that the ballot measure was designed to mislead the public by packaging an unpopular term-limits extension with popular ethics reforms. Hernandez and his attorney said Measure R violated the "single-subject rule" in the California Constitution by combining two separate issues into one initiative.

But a three-judge panel of the 2 nd District Court of Appeal decided that the single-subject rule doesn't apply to Measure R because it was put on the ballot by the City Council and therefore isn't an initiative.