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 the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ordered Jack removed from the case and reversed her most recent – and most punitive – order against state child welfare officials.

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