A hearing in yet another court case over religious exemptions to school vaccination requirements has been set for 10 a.m. Wednesday in Kanawha Circuit Court.

This is awkwardly timed because a circuit judge in Raleigh County last week announced his intent to certify a class of families with similar claims. The class could cover the more than 570 families whose students are seeking admission to school all over the state after receiving religious exemptions from the state health department.

But Raleigh Circuit Judge Michael Froble will not enter a final written order about the class certification for another week or so. And Judge Froble said he would produce a final, overall order on the religious exemptions case by the end of November.

That puts cases like the one in Kanawha into sort of

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