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Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - BobK - 09-27-2024

Too weird.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/judge-orders-ucla-baseball-stadium-to-be-locked-up-over-va-land-use-dispute/#m1kzlyc2mjoxyftl0lg

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RE: Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - TrumpCard - 09-27-2024

(09-27-2024, 10:21 AM)BobK Wrote:  Too weird. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/judge-orders-ucla-baseball-stadium-to-be-locked-up-over-va-land-use-dispute/#m1kzlyc2mjoxyftl0lg

I haven't looked at this case carefully, but I note that the same judge previously issued an absurd sounding mandatory injunction in a case about homelessness policy, and the 9th Circuit overturned that one:  https://lamag.com/featured/skid-row-homeless-order-overturned

Although this is a different case with different facts, I would not be shocked to see the same thing happen again here.

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RE: Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - martyup - 09-27-2024

Maybe karma is catching up with the Pac-12 traitors.

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RE: Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - cardcrimson - 09-27-2024

Perhaps he'll charge them with 60 years of retroactive compensation. . . .

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RE: Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - martyup - 09-27-2024

(09-27-2024, 10:52 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Perhaps he'll charge them with 60 years of retroactive compensation. . . .

I understand from the article that UCLA has been paying rent.

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RE: Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - jonnyss - 09-27-2024

(09-27-2024, 11:02 AM)martyup Wrote:  

(09-27-2024, 10:52 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Perhaps he'll charge them with 60 years of retroactive compensation. . . .

I understand from the article that UCLA has been paying rent.

yes, but apparently only $300,000 per year for the 10 acres, which i believe comes out to $2500 per month per acre - a sweetheart deal. also, ucla sold naming rights for a practice infield for $2 million and kept all the money. the judge wrote that the land must "principally benefit veterans" and ordered the va to build 750 units of housing for homeless vets on the land.
link

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RE: Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - Spiny_Norman - 09-27-2024

Jackie Robinson Stadium (a beautiful stadium) is located on property that is owned by the US government, specifically the US Department of Veterans Affairs. It was given to the US in 1888 for the benefit of war veterans. Over the years, the VA has been so deficient in using the property for its stated purpose that veteran's groups have sued the VA to try to force them to comply. The focus right now is getting the VA to build permanent housing for veterans there to help some of the thousands of homeless vets in the LA area.

Among the current leaseholders on the VA grounds are an oil company, a private school which uses 22 acres for its athletic facilities and UCLA for its baseball stadium. The judge has ruled that these leaseholders do not provide required services or benefits for veterans. But he is allowing the VA and the leaseholders to negotiate terms that might meet with his approval. For example, he has said that the oil leases can stay if they give 51% of the revenue to the VA.

UCLA should have seen this coming for years. Their lease was first challenged over 10 years ago. Maybe they thought they could skate through by giving veterans free admission and concessions at the games (they actually argued this in court).

I hope UCLA will ultimately work out something to keep Jackie Robinson Field in business. But they are going to have to offer a lot to make it work.

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RE: Judge takes away UCLA baseball stadium - martyup - 09-27-2024

(09-27-2024, 03:14 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  I hope UCLA will ultimately work out something to keep Jackie Robinson Field in business. But they are going to have to offer a lot to make it work.

Well, they should give up some of that B1G media share revenue.  How about 51%?

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