The state Supreme Court has pumped the brakes on a Raleigh County circuit judge’s recent ruling in a case with statewide implications about religious exemptions to West Virginia’s school vaccination requirements.

“Upon consideration and review, the Court is of the opinion to, and does, grant the petitioners’ motion to stay,” the court wrote in an order today.

“Enforcement of the circuit court’s November 26, 2025, ‘Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order Granting Permanent Injunction and Declaratory Relief‘ and any further proceedings in circuit court are stayed pending resolution of this petition for a writ of prohibition.”

The stay would apply as the Supreme Court moves to review what has happened up to now in the Raleigh County courtroom.

In a 74-page Thanksgiving week order,

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