Oral arguments on the merits of the Term Limits
lawsuit will begin this Monday, January 5th, at 4:30pm.

This diverse coalition of local
elected officials, candidates, good-government groups, and voters filed the
lawsuit in November to challenge the term limits extension that was passed by
the City Council and signed into law by Mayor Bloomberg this fall. The
plaintiffs seek to invalidate the law, and further seek the court’s declaration
that a fundamental change in the City’s term-limits law, such as the extension
enacted by the Council and the Mayor, requires a public referendum. The case
has been assigned to Judge Sifton in the Eastern District. The judge has set an
aggressive schedule for moving the case forward, and has also rejected the
City’s request to transfer the Term Limits case to the Southern District of New
York in Manhattan, after finding that combining the cases in the Southern
District would not save any resources or serve the interests of justice, as the
City had claimed.