The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must lock down UCLA's Jackie Robinson Stadium on the VA's West Los Angeles campus at noon Thursday, a federal judge…
The university was ordered to develop a plan for the stadium grounds to be used for the benefit of the military veterans for whom the land was originally deeded.The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must lock down UCLA 's Jackie Robinson Stadium on the VA's West Los Angeles campus at noon Thursday, a federal judge ordered.
Carter warned at the hearing that he was also on the verge of ordering the private Brentwood School's athletic center on VA grounds"bulldozed" and its swimming pool"filled with sand'' unless the school handed over VA land and devised a way for military veterans to enjoy the center, along with the student body.
The developments stem from a monthlong non-jury trial of a lawsuit lodged in federal court against the VA by a group of unhoused veterans with disabilities, challenging land lease agreements and seeking housing on the campus for veterans in need, many of whom are homeless or must travel for hours to see their doctors.
Ultimately, the court found that veterans are entitled to more than 2,500 units of housing at the campus"and termination of the illegal land-use agreements." Carter, himself a Vietnam War veteran, found that the VA"has allowed the drastic reduction of the size of the original plot of land deeded in 1888 to be an old soldiers' home. In a series of lengthy, renewable leases, the VA authorized leaseholders to build permanent athletic facilities -- after permitting these concrete structures to be built on veterans' land."
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