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After a proposed deal with top business leaders crumbled over the weekend, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a new version of a living wage ordinance for workers at hotels near Los Angeles International Airport. The 9 to 3 vote guarantees wages and benefits of at least $10.64 per hour to workers at 13 hotels along Century Boulevard. Though the law is expected to win final approval next week, it is likely to be challenged in court, union and business officials agreed Tuesday. The city had rescinded its original ordinance for the hotel workers under threat of a referendum, and some business interests say that would make it difficult for the city to defend a new law in court ? particularly if the new law isn't much different from the old one.