CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Education took the next step to appeal a lower court ruling that kept in place a religious exemption to the state’s compulsory immunization law for the children of three Raleigh County parents.

Attorneys for the state Board of Education filed an appeal Friday afternoon to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals seeking to overturn a preliminary injunction put in place last month by 14th Judicial Circuit Judge Michael Froble blocking enforcement by the Raleigh County Board of Education – as directed by the West Virginia Board of Education – of the compulsory vaccination law due to those parents being granted religious exemptions by the Department of Health.

Froble sided with attorneys for Raleigh County parents Miranda Guzman, Amanda Tulle

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