The Metropolis of Pasadena and the Rose Bowl Working Co. requested a preliminary injunction and momentary restraining order Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket in search of to forestall UCLA from leaving the Rose Bowl or terminating its stadium lease till pending litigation towards the college is resolved.
The submitting contends that the plaintiffs would endure “fast and irreparable hurt if the established order is just not preserved through the pendency of this lawsuit.” A listening to has tentatively been scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Final week, the plaintiffs sued to pressure the Bruins to honor the phrases of the lease that requires them to remain on the Rose Bowl via the tip of the 2043 season.
UCLA responded in an announcement that it was nonetheless evaluating choices for its soccer house, although somebody aware of the college’s considering on the matter later confirmed to The Instances that if the Bruins determined to go away for SoFi Stadium, they might need to achieve this for the 2026 season.
Of their Monday submitting, the plaintiffs contended that: “there isn’t a strategy to sugarcoat it: UCLA has confirmed its imminent departure, severely destabilizing Plaintiffs’ core operations. These operations are structured round and contingent upon UCLA. With out affirmation that UCLA intends to honor its contractual commitments — not less than through the pendency of this litigation — Plaintiffs are disadvantaged of the power to plan and handle the stadium’s schedule and their ongoing enterprise operations, together with cultivating and securing future enterprise companions and alternatives, retaining personnel, and sustaining confidence among the many many distributors and sponsors who depend on UCLA Soccer.
“Equally troubling is the precedent UCLA is setting. Stadium and enviornment public-private partnerships, and the financing that makes them doable, activate enforceable, long-term contracts, with phrases that usually comply with the general public debt incurred. UCLA’s try to interrupt its contract a long time early critically undermines these constructions.”
