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

Todd Kirby, a former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, spoke on Feb. 27, 2023, in support of the “Equal Protection for Religion Act” that was passed. FormerGov. Jim Justice signed the ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The federal government’s exemption for quoting religious texts in its proposed hate speech law has attracted criticism — it ...

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 ...

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 ...

West Virginia families statewide who have a religious or philosophical objection to the state’s school vaccination requirements must be allowed to attend school, a Raleigh County judge ruled Wednesday ...

When it comes to quoting religious texts, the government should be concerned not just with Islamic and Jewish writings (“Hate speech law’s religious text exemptions anger Jews, Coalition”, January 14) ...