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Suffolk term limits case gains support

A file photo of Suffolk County distict attorney

Photo credit: James Carbone | A file photo of Suffolk County distict attorney Thomas Spota, outside the Suffolk County Legislature Building in Hauppauge.

Dan Janison

Melville. N.Y. Tuesday January 26, 2010. Daniel Janison, Dan Janison

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The newly broached question of whether Suffolk's term-limit law covers three countywide elected offices has quickly resonated in the greater political world.

Suffolk appears to be the only one of the state's 62 counties where a local term-limit law is on the books affecting any of those three jobs -- all established under Article XIII, Section 13 of the state Constitution.

The court...

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