Amicus Brief Defending Religious Liberty and Parental Rights in Vaccine Exemption Case Filed by Governor Morrisey
The filing says the state’s religious protections law requires meaningful accommodation for families with sincere objections, and nearly 600 students had sought exemptions.
- On Monday, Governor Patrick Morrisey filed an amicus brief with the West Virginia Supreme Court defending his executive order allowing religious exemptions for mandatory school vaccinations.
- The legal dispute stems from a November injunction by Raleigh County Judge Michael Froble, which halted the West Virginia Board of Education's refusal to honor religious exemption requests for school vaccines.
- Morrisey's brief argues the Equal Protection for Religion Act of 2023 applies to vaccination laws, while The Board contends the judge relied on testimony from an "anti-vaccination advocate."
- "The executive branch is constitutionally charged with enforcing the law, and that obligation extends to all the laws including EPR," wrote attorneys on Morrisey's behalf as the court stayed lower court activity.
- Nearly 600 students requested religious exemptions as of late last year, while 45 states allow them; the state board must file a reply by June 1 before the court schedules oral arguments.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. Gov. Patrick Morrisey is asking the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court ruling that supports religious exemptions to school vaccination requirements. Morrisey announced Monday that he filed an amicus brief defending the state’s Equal Protection for Religion Act and the religious exemption process created under Executive Order 7-25. [...]
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