Philadelphia Family Court Judge Lyris F. Younge, who in recent weeks has faced strong criticism from an appeals court as well as protests in the street for violating parents’ rights, is off the bench—at least for now—and another judge has taken over her cases, undoing several of her rulings that removed children from their parents.

Younge has been off the bench since last week and has not been assigned judicial duties for this week either, according to the court’s schedule and several family lawyers. Judge Joseph Fernandes now sits in her courtroom and has taken over her caseload.

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