Appeals court grants state's request to halt $100,000 daily fines in Texas foster care case

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Texas is pushing back on a federal judge's decision to demand the state pay $100,000 per day over failures in the foster case system, and the appeals court has agreed to halt those fines, for now.
One day after U.S. District Judge Janis Jack found the state in contempt of court for violating two of her previous orders in the longstanding foster care lawsuit, the attorneys representing the state asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay. On Wednesday, the 5th Circuit gran