CHARLESTON — It has been more than 11 months since the West Virginia Water Development Authority awarded $5 million in infrastructure dollars to an Ohio-based Catholic trade school to expand into the Mountain State, while a lawsuit to block that funding continues.

At the end of August, the ACLU of West Virginia, working on behalf of the American Humanist Association, filed a motion in Kanawha County Circuit Court asking 8th Judicial Circuit Judge Richard Lindsay to deny a motion to deny injunctive relief filed earlier in August by the Water Development Authority.

In her Aug. 27 filing, ACLU Legal Director Aubrey Sparks argued Lindsay already denied a motion for summary judgement made by attorneys for the WDA to dismiss the case in a July 9 evidentiary hearing.

“Such a request is both pr

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