U.S. District Judge David O. Carter tours the VA's West Los Angeles campus in August. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images. During the bench trial, the 80-year-old judge, ...

Judge blasts VA, orders more housing for veterans on West LA campus In the 125-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter wrote that the "cost of the VA's inaction is veterans' lives." ...

Judge David O. Carter inspects the West L.A. VA campus on Aug. 21, 2024, while overseeing a lawsuit against the VA brought by veterans. Getty Photo by Brian van der Brug via Los Angeles Times ...

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The inside of a bedroom at new housing for unhoused veterans at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus, during a tour on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. ... VA officials argued Carter overstepped his ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles is shown in February 2022. A lawsuit filed on behalf of homeless veterans is seeking to force the VA to build 4,000 housing units on ...

For nearly a decade, a plan to restore the 388-acre Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles into a veterans community has been entangled in false starts, scandal and litigation. It was not ...

A federal judge on Friday slammed the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to build enough homes for veterans in West Los Angeles and ruled that a private school, UCLA, an oil driller and a ...

Los Angeles (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday slammed the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to build enough homes for veterans in West Los Angeles and ruled that ...