The latest on the Westside VA litigation seems to favor UCLA's continued use of its baseball stadium:
From the LA Times: ...The 2022 lawsuit alleged that the VA discriminates against disabled veterans by not providing housing on campus near the medical services they need to access. It also challenged the VA’s leases of portions of the 388-acre campus to non-veteran interests, including UCLA and the private Brentwood School for athletic facilities.
In his October 2024 final judgment, Carter ruled those leases invalid. He ordered the VA to create up to 750 units of temporary housing in 18 months and an additional 1,800 permanent units over six years, all in addition to 1,200 units ordered in the settlement of a previous lawsuit. Later that month, hoping to get some housing built before the rainy season, he ordered the VA to secure a contract within three weeks to install at least 100 modular units, some on the parking lot of UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Baseball Stadium.
The VA appealed, and the 9th Circuit panel stayed the order. After oral arguments in the spring, the three judges issued a complex decision affirming Carter’s finding of discrimination but overruling his order invalidating UCLA’s lease for its baseball stadium. In the Friday order, the three-judge panel unanimously rejected the VA request for an en banc hearing. A judge requested a vote on that decision, and it failed to receive a majority, the order said. Three judges who were not on the panel all appointees of President Trump, dissented in 57 pages of argument characterizing Carter’s ruling as whimsical and judicially flawed. “We have no business ordering the VA to build thousands of housing units on a whim,” they concluded. “This is not the Ninth Circuit Court of Appropriations.” ...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-11/order-to-build-thousands-of-housing-units-on-vas-west-la-campus-stands-on-appeal.
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