A federal judge correctly invalidated the leases of a private school and an oil drilling well on the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ Los Angeles campus, but was wrong to touch the lease for UCLA’s baseball stadium, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled.
The judges in a mixed ruling upheld much of US District Judge David Carter’s ruling in a case brought by a class of disabled, homeless veterans against the VA over the use of its land. They agreed with Carter on the broad strokes of his decision—that the VA was failing to provide veterans with access to the medical ...