From the Daily Bruin: UCLA’s 10-acre lease with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which includes Jackie Robinson Stadium, was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit on Tuesday [Dec. 23]. “Because we are reversing judgment on Plaintiffs’ charitable trust claim, we dismiss UCLA’s consolidated appeals as moot and vacate any injunctive relief with respect to UCLA’s lease and services,” said Judge Ana de Alba in the court’s opinion.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, a Vietnam war-era veteran and UCLA alumnus, barred UCLA baseball from its home ballpark of 44 seasons in September 2024 after deeming the university’s lease illegal for not primarily serving veterans in a class-action lawsuit – forcing the team to move practices off site, either using other facilities on campus or traveling to nearby high school and junior college fields. The lawsuit was filed by veterans advocates, who claimed that the lease was mismanagement on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The dispute centered on whether the land – or rents earned from it – was sufficiently benefiting veterans, a legal requirement...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2025/12/23/us-court-of-appeals-upholds-uclas-lease-with-department-of-veterans-affairs.
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*Our previous post on this matter is at:
https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-lease.html.
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Note: According to the LA Times, there will be a refiling of the case against UCLA on other grounds. See https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-23/appeals-court-affirms-federal-judges-order-to-build-housing-on-vas-west-los-angeles-campus.
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