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    Veterans' claims over misuse of the VA West LA campus may go to trial

    by Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 2023 4 minutes
    Construction workers walk past Building 207 that is being refurbished as housing for veterans on the Veteran Affairs West LA campus in Los Angeles on June 23, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has set the stage for a possible trial next year in a lawsuit challenging leases of land on West L.A.'s Veterans Affairs' campus to UCLA and a private school and the slow progress of the VA's promise to build housing for homeless veterans.

    In a tentative ruling he warned he may change, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter denied motions to dismiss key portions of the class-action lawsuit that seeks to declare the leases illegal and compel the VA to expeditiously provide housing for thousands of homeless veterans.

    Carter handed out the pre-written tentative ruling following a 3½-hour hearing Monday in which,

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