More than 13 years after a Corpus Christi judge began overseeing a case on Texas' struggling foster care system, a federal appeals court has removed her and vacated her order of contempt against ...

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 ...

U.S. District Judge Janis Jack administers the U.S. oath of citizenship to more than 100 area residents representing 25 countries in 2008 aboard the USS Lexington. Jack was the first woman federal ...

U.S. District Judge Janis Jack was removed from the case in October, after more than 13 years as the state’s de facto foster ...

The ruling reverses an April contempt of court ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Janis Jack against Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) for failing to properly investigate abuse ...

Four months after a three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals removed federal Judge Janis Jack from a major, yearslong case against Texas’ foster care system and vacated her ...

Janis Jack, a federal district judge, has pushed the State of Texas for many years to reform the Dickensian meat grinder that is our foster care system. Her Corpus Christi courtroom became that ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An appeals court has ordered the removal of the federal judge who has overseen the legal fight over foster care in Texas for more than a decade. In its ruling released Friday ...

Plaintiffs for children in state custody will ask a federal appeals court to reconsider an order removing U.S. District Judge Janis Jack from the case. Judge Jack has presided over the case for 13 ...

On a chilly morning last January, U.S. District Judge Janis Jack was visibly on edge in her Corpus Christi courtroom. She leaned in and cast a hard look at Cecile E. Young, the Texas Health and ...