CHARLESTON — Last week, a judge in Raleigh County took testimony from a former state health officer in a case that could determine whether Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s religious exemption executive order is legal. Now, the new state health officer will have to testify.

Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Michael Froble issued a subpoena Tuesday for Dr. Mark McDaniel, the acting state health officer and commissioner of the Bureau of Public Health within the West Virginia Department of Health (DoH), to testify in the ongoing permanent injunction case filed by Raleigh County parents against the state Board of Education and Raleigh County Board of Education.

DoH Secretary Arvin Singh appointed McDaniel as the acting state health officer in August, with McDaniel officially beginning his job on Aug.

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