Federal appeals court upholds constitutionality of W.Va. compulsory vaccine law
CHARLESTON - While an appeal remains pending before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals over efforts to insert a religious exemption to the state's school-age vaccine requirements, a three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled in favor of the state's vaccine law in a separate case. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a judgment Wednesday reversing a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in a case brought by two parents in 2024 challenging the legality of West Virginia's compulsory vaccine ...