CHARLESTON — While a Raleigh County case involving the legality of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing for religious exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory immunization is now before the state Supreme Court of Appeals, the executive order faced its first setback in Mineral County.

Twenty-Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Judge James W. Courrier Jr. denied motions Friday for a preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order filed last month by parent Matthew Hansford against the Mineral County Board of Education and Mineral County School Superintendent Troy Ravenscroft. A written order was not available at press time.

According to his Aug. 15 filing in Mineral County Circuit Court, Hansford received a religious exemption through the state Department of Health on Aug. 14

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