UCLA Baseball Stadium on VA Grounds Locked Down Per Judge’s Order

Tents are set up for homeless veterans outside the Veteran Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System campus in Los Angeles, on June 7, 2020. Hau Nguyen/The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium was locked down Thursday after a federal judge ordered the facility closed until the university submits a proposal for the stadium grounds to be used primarily for the benefit of the military veterans for whom the land was originally deeded.

The shut-down order came at the conclusion of a daylong hearing Wednesday 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 has been illegally contracted from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).