CHARLESTON — While focus remains on a lawsuit filed by Raleigh County parents seeking a permanent injunction against local and state education officials requiring them to accept religious exemptions to the compulsory vaccine law, motions were filed in the Kanawha County case opposing religious exemptions.

The ACLU-WV and Mountain State Justice, representing two parents with immunocompromised children, filed a motion last week in Raleigh County Circuit Court seeking a summary judgment in their favor against the West Virginia Department of Health.

Kanawha County parent Marisa Jackson and Dr. Joshua A. Hess, a pediatric hematologist and oncologist practicing at Marshall Health’s Cabell Huntington Hospital, filed a lawsuit in August seeking a writ of mandamus asking the court to order the De

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