Religious exemption to a West Virginia vaccine mandate for a single child could open the floodgates to lower immunization requirements and more infections, a federal appeals court judge warned during ...

Parents of New York children seeking constitutional reprieve from New York’s mandatory vaccination laws found little sympathy in Brooklyn’s federal court. District Judge William Kuntz ruled that no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON — Cases in West Virginia circuit courts over the issue of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing for religious exemptions to the state’s compulsory vaccine law are getting all of ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials suspended a school vaccination mandate Wednesday after a judge ruled that parents can cite religious beliefs to opt out of vaccines required for their ...