Four more years: Prop R upheld

Capping months of legal battles, a judge on Tuesday upheld a controversial ethics-reform measure that also gives Los Angeles City Council members the option of seeking a third four-year term in office. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

Opponents said the measure - approved by 59 percent of city voters last November - violates the California Constitution by combining two separate issues.

While Superior Court Judge David Yaffe suggested that voters probably would not have passed the term-limit extension on its own, he said Los Angeles leaders did not break the law by combining it with ethics reforms in one measure.