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 ...

The federal government’s exemption for quoting religious texts in its proposed hate speech law has attracted criticism — it risks creating confusion, overreach and the unedifying prospect of secular ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Courtroom in the State Capitol Building in Charleston. (Photo Courtesy/WV Supreme Court of Appeals) CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education took ...

Wisconsin state officials say Catholic Charities Bureau, a nonprofit network of social service organizations run by the Catholic Church, isn’t sufficiently religious to qualify for a state religious ...