UCLA and the VA

From the LA Times: Concurring with arguments by several prominent constitutional and civil rights scholars, a federal judge has reversed himself and ruled that veterans can sue the Department of Veterans Affairs for housing they need to access healthcare and other VA benefits. In a far-reaching ruling, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter also found that the leases of portions of the VA’s West Los Angeles Campus to UCLA and a private school are not in compliance with the congressional requirement to “provide services that principally benefit veterans and their families.”

...Seven prominent legal scholars including UC Berkeley Law School dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Harvard Law School professor Laurence H. Tribe joined in a friend of the court brief filed by the national ACLU. Other scholars in the group were Yale Law School professors Michael J. Wishnie and Judith Resnik, USC Gould School of Law professor Adam Zimmerman, UCLA Law School professor David Marcus and Stanford Law School professor Pamela S. Karlan...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-18/veterans-demand-for-more-housing-in-west-los-angeles-to-go-forward-in-federal-court.