WEST LOS ANGELES (CNS) — After UCLA was locked out of its baseball stadium on the VA’s West Los Angeles campus by a federal judge who terminated the lease, the university has come up with a proposal on how the 10 acres it rented on VA grounds for decades can be used primarily for the benefit of the military veterans for whom the land was originally deeded.
The shutdown order was issued Sept. 25 after a court hearing in which U.S. District Judge David O. Carter voiced frustration at UCLA and other ex-leaseholders at the VA’s West Los Angeles campus for not offering satisfactory uses for land that he ruled had been illegally contracted from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
As a result of the injunction, UCLA’s baseball team rushed to collect their equipment and vacate the premises on the morning of Sept. 26, before VA security placed locks on all entrances and exit gates to the Jackie Robinson Stadiumand …