West Virginia’s attorney general is asking to consolidate two court cases about religious exceptions to school vaccine requirements.

Attorney General J.B. McCuskey filed the motion to consolidate earlier this week.

One case, in Raleigh County, was filed by parents who are asserting that the school system should honor religious exemptions to vaccination requirements. Late last month, Circuit Judge Michael Froble granted those families a preliminary injunction.

A Kanawha County case comes at the conflict from the opposite side.

It was filed on behalf of parents contending their immunocompromised children would be put at risk if the schools are opened to more students exempted from vaccines for communicable disease. That lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of an executive order by th

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