CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP): City officials in northwestern Indiana have resigned after a Lake County judge upheld the state’s law regarding nepotism.

The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that Lake Superior Court Judge William E. Davis released a ruling Wednesday against a group of public officials from Lake County who sued to overturn a 2012 law forbidding elected officials from also being employees of the same governing agency.

Hobart City Councilman Matthew D. Claussen, New Chicago Town Councilwoman Susan Pelfrey, East Chicago City Councilman Juda Parks, and Hammond City Councilmen Michael Opinker and Scott Rakos filed challenges in both federal and state courts, arguing the law violated their right to be involved in elective politics.

All of them have resigned from their seats except for Parks, who said he’d decide what to do over the weekend.