The San Diego Union-Tribune offers this report, which begins: “A state appeals court blocked the certification of the vote in the San Diego mayor’s race yesterday, breathing new life into a suit contesting the legality of the election. The ruling came just before the county registrar of voters was due to finalize the count in Mayor Dick Murphy’s apparent re-election and added more uncertainty to a race with no clear winner four weeks after the polls closed. And in another volley in the litigation over the Nov. 2 election, a federal judge in San Diego declined to issue a court order in a separate suit seeking to nullify the election.” The Los Angeles Times reports that the federal judge’s decision was based on laches.