BECKLEY — A ruling on a permanent injunction to block local and state education officials from rejecting religious vaccine exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory vaccine law as mandated by Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s January executive order is likely still weeks away.

Thursday marked the second day of a permanent injunction hearing in Raleigh County Circuit Court in downtown Beckley before 14th Judicial Circuit Judge Michael Froble. The judge took testimony Wednesday from experts presented by attorneys representing two parents seeking to stop school officials from not accepting religious vaccine exemptions granted for their children.

Parties in the lawsuit heard testimony from experts provided by the West Virginia Board of Education, Raleigh County Board of Education, and intervenors on be

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