US judge suspends order for lesbians to return baby: media

April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce had been told to hand back the nine-month-old girl by November 17, in a decision that stirred outrage in their home state of Utah and beyond. The couple's lawyer, Jim Hunnicutt, could not be reached immediately by AFP for comment. Hoagland and Peirce were allowed to become foster parents after the US Supreme Court made gay marriage legal across the country this summer.