A federal appeals court late Friday, Jan. 19, granted Texas a temporary stay after U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack issued a ruling earlier that day regarding Texas’ foster care system. The court found that Texas’s foster care system remains broken and adopted in parts of the Special Master’s 2017 Implementation Plan into the ruling, requiring the state to implement policies and procedures specified in the ruling to ensure that Texas’s permanent managing conservatorship foster children are free from an unreasonable risk of harm. Attorney General Ken Paxton also sought an appeal of the ruling with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit after a U.S. District Court.
View the ruling here: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/files/epress/Dkt_559_final_order_(002).pdf?cachebuster:8
View the motion to stay pending appeal here: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/files/epress/20180119_Dkt_561.0_-_Ds_Mtn_to_Stay.pdf?cachebuster:63