CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Despite a scheduling order from the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals last week, which set up possible arguments next year on an appeal of a lower court preliminary injunction that grafted a religious vaccine exemption onto the state’s compulsory immunization law, a hearing on a permanent injunction will continue.

After a telephone conference Monday with attorneys representing families who received a religious vaccine exemption through Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s January executive order and attorneys for the state Board of Education and Raleigh County Board of Education — which support the existing compulsory immunization law — 14th Judicial Circuit Judge Michael Froble denied a motion filed by both parties Friday to stay further proceedings.

Froble scheduled a heari

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