The State - News from Sept. 19, 1989

Ending an eleventh-hour political and legal drama that threatened to postpone San Diego’s City Council elections, the city and the Chicano Federation reached an out-of-court settlement of the federation’s lawsuit, thus allowing the first district-only council election since the City Charter was adopted in 1931. U.S. District Judge John S. Rhoades tentatively accepted a settlement of the class-action suit aimed at increasing the council’s size and altering the way district boundaries are drawn. Rhoades had promised to hold hearings Monday on the federation’s call for postponement of today’s election if the two sides were unable to settle the 20-month-old suit.