CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – A judge has ruled in favor of the Kanawha County Board of Education in a lawsuit over their vaccination requirements.

The hearing was pushed back to Friday morning after the parent seeking an injunction against the BOE’s vaccination requirements did not show up for the original hearing on Wednesday. But, that parent did not show up to Friday’s hearing either.

The parent who filed the injunction was seeking a religious exemption for their child, and was granted an exemption by the Bureau for Public Health, but the Kanawha County BOE says the child cannot attend school on the basis of a religious exemption.

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“It would not be in the public interest to find for the plaintiff and grant the injunction, as the public interest would be best served to deny the injunction and make certain that the compulsory vaccination law, which has been in place since 1937, continues to keep the children of Kanawha County healthy and safe,” said Kanawha County Judge Richard Lindsay.

The ruling comes days after a judge in Raleigh County certified a class action lawsuit for multiple families seeking religious exemptions for vaccines. However, the parent in the Kanawha County case will not be a part of that lawsuit.