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).
