Religious exemption to a West Virginia vaccine mandate for a single child could open the floodgates to lower immunization ...

The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty, right, is sworn in prior to giving testimony Wednesday morning in a religious vaccine exemption lawsuit in Beckley. (Photo by Steven Allen ...

The Third Circuit held that such organizations may raise religious exemption claims, though it declined to decide (at this stage of the litigation) whether the claim would prevail on the facts of this ...

On Dec, 8, 2025, the Supreme Court vacated the judgment in Miller v. Mc Donald Commissioner et al, 130 F.4th 258 (2d. Cir 2025) and remanded it for further consideration in light of Mahmoud v. Taylor, ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Board of Education on Tuesday reinstated a school vaccination mandate after the state Supreme Court paused a lower court’s ruling that allowed parents to ...

The Trump administration has launched investigations into healthcare organizations in an effort to allow providers to refuse care for transgender patients on religious or moral grounds. One of the ...

Another case focused on whether West Virginia’s religious freedoms law applies to mandatory school vaccinations could be headed to the state Supreme Court. This one involves nine families in Berkeley ...