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Abbott is a defendant alongside the heads of two state agencies that manage the foster care system. The New Orleans judges also struck down Jack's April order that would have fined the state ...

A panel of three 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges ruled Oct. 11 that U.S. District Judge Janis Jack’s contempt ruling and $100,000-per-day fine violated the court’s constitutional limits of ...

Greg Abbott's request that the case be reassigned. Abbott is a defendant alongside the heads of two state agencies that manage the foster care system. The New Orleans judges also struck down Jack's ...

U.S. District Judge Janis Jack, the state’s de facto foster care czar, has been overseeing the case since 2011. U.S. District Judge Janis Jack, seen in 2008, has been the de facto foster care ...

U.S. District Judge Janis Jack is a semi-retired judge in Corpus Christi who has overseen a 13-year lawsuit by Texas foster kids against the state’s child-welfare system. On Friday, a panel of ...

According to its appeal, the state has spent more than $150 million on improvements to the foster care system to address Jack's specific remedial orders. "Frankly, this is a sad day for Texas ...

Jack previously held the state in contempt in 2019 and 2020. In 2019, she fined the state $50,000 a day for failing to ensure that foster children were receiving around-the-clock supervision at ...

The ruling also reversed the hundreds of thousands of dollars in daily fines Judge Jack recently ordered the state pay for contempt of court. BACKGROUND: Appeals court to hear foster care case ...