Certain schools in Virginia may impose masking requirements despite a state law and executive order that bar such mandates, a federal judge ruled on March 23. Schools where students of parents who sued over the law and order can require masking, U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon, a Clinton appointee, said in a 5-page preliminary injunction ruling. Federal law, specifically, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, preempt the challenged measures, Moon concluded. Together, the law “requires that schools be able to consider and afford disabled students reasonable modifications from otherwise applicable state or local laws,” Moon wrote. Plaintiffs have demonstrated they’re likely to succeed in their lawsuit, which alleges the state measures “prevent or limit plaintiffs’ schools or school districts from considering plaintiffs’ individualized requests that some amount of masking is necessary as a ‘reasonable modification’ to that otherwise applicable Virginia law,” he added. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, …