BECKLEY, W.Va. — After four days of hearings spread out between September and October, a decision on whether to grant a permanent injunction for a group of Raleigh County parents seeking to force local and state education officials into accepting their religious exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory vaccine law could come by the end of November.

Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Michael Froble heard closing arguments Thursday morning in a case first filed in June by Raleigh County parent Miranda Guzman seeking a permanent injunction against the West Virginia Board of Education, state Superintendent of Schools Michele Blatt and the Raleigh County Board of Education.

Froble already granted a preliminary injunction in the case back in July.

The lawsuit sought to block a June 11 unanimou

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