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 ...

It's not a given that those matters will be points of emphasis when the annual regular session kicks off Jan. 14, but ...

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 ...

As vaccine exemptions spread and courts are weaponized in the name of “medical freedom,” preventable childhood diseases are ...

The Kansas Supreme Court heard a case this week that stems from a Leawood woman who sought a religious exemption from a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for an occupational therapy job. In a case that ...

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 ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threw his support behind the West Virginia governor's initiative to bring religious exemptions for school vaccine mandates to his state. In a post on X, Kennedy ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Image by Hands off my tags! Michael Gaida from Pixabay via Courthouse News) SEATTLE (CN) — Whether a Washington church can keep an order preventing the state from enforcing an anti-discrimination law ...