LOS ANGELES – The city of Pasadena and the operators of the Rose Bowl intensified their legal battle with UCLA Monday, filing court papers seeking a restraining order preventing the university from moving its home football games out of the fabled venue.

The city and the Rose Bowl Operating Company sued the university in late October seeking to enforce the terms of a lease agreement they claim locks UCLA into playing football at the venue until 2044.

While the suit is pending, the plaintiffs filed papers with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Lipner on Monday asking that a restraining order be issued prohibiting UCLA from playing any home football games at any other venue in Los Angeles or Orange counties, and barring the university from trying to terminate its Rose Bowl lease while

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