♫Take Us Out of the Ball Game♫ - Part 9 (indirect effect)

As blog readers will know, UCLA had a lease agreement for a baseball field on the nearby VA property which a judge voided.* There have been appeals, stays, etc. Meanwhile, the Brentwood School, which also had a lease and significant athletic facilities on the VA property seemed to have a deal worked out, but has nevertheless appealed the judge's decision, essentially saying the initial decision was an incorrect interpretation of the law.

Were that appeal to succeed, it would have an indirect effect on UCLA even if UCLA is not a party to the Brentwood litigation since it would undermine the initial ruling.

From the LA Times: ...[The Brentwood School's] Jan. 17 brief to the appeals court made no mention of the agreement [that the Brentwood School had previously made] and instead argued that the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016, the law on which Carter’s ruling rested, only required lease holders to provide services that principally benefit veterans and their families, not that the lease in its entirety had to meet that standard...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-30/brentwood-school-asks-appeals-court-to-toss-out-a-judges-ruling-voiding-its-lease-of-veteran-land.

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*Our most recent posting on this matter is at:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/12/take-us-out-of-ball-game-part-8.html.