NJ Gov. Chris Christie, others ask for Kaci Hickox lawsuit to be thrown out

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Source: Bangor Daily News

TRENTON, New Jersey — Gov. Chris Christie and other public health officials who are defendants in a federal lawsuit filed by Kaci Hickox, the nurse who lived in Fort Kent and was quarantined in New Jersey after returning from treating patients with Ebola in Africa during 2014, are asking the lawsuit be dismissed.

“On her return to the U.S., four separate readings revealed that she had an elevated temperature,” states the 60-page motion to dismiss filed Friday by New Jersey Deputy Attorney General Benjamin H. Zieman on behalf of John J. Hoffman, Acting Attorney General for New Jersey. “Public health officials, acting in the same best traditions of their profession, properly had her quarantined.”

Hickox filed the federal lawsuit in October, claiming she was held illegally and unconstitutionally against her will as part of a mandatory quarantine for anyone returning from certain West African countries who treated patients with Ebola. Her attorneys claim Christie, then-Commissioner of Health Mary O’Dowd and other New Jersey health officials imprisoned her illegally through the quarantine. The complaint also said Christie, who is running for President, made false statements about Hickox’s health and implied she had symptoms of Ebola. Hickox has said Christie’s decision to quarantine her was based on fear, not science, and was politically motivated.

“There’s no question that the woman is ill, the question is what is her illness,” Christie said, according to the court document. “It’s not definitive — at least it was not definitive the last time I checked, which was about three hours ago when I called.”

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Fascist pig

yup

[hollysmom]

1. I wish this suit was filed personally against Christie.

I know states have deeper pockets, but Chrisite should pay for some of his idiocy that was not supported by people inthe state.

[forest444]

2. Or what, Crisco?

You'll jump from the George Washington Bridge?

[rocktivity]

3. If her forehead temperature had been confirmed with an oral temperature

none of it would have happened.

Everyone thought she was running a fever because she was a pale-skinned redhead:

Dallas News: My temperature was taken using a forehead scanner and it read a temperature of 98... Three hours passed... An official approached me with a forehead scanner...(which) recorded my temperature as 101...“You have a fever now,”... I explained that...the forehead scanner was recording an elevated temperature because I was flushed and upset.

Eight police cars escorted me to the University Hospital in Newark...I was escorted to a tent that sat outside of the building. The infectious disease and emergency department doctors took my temperature and other vitals and looked puzzled. “Your temperature is 98.6,” they said. “You don't have a fever but we were told you had a fever” ...(T)he(ir) forehead scanner record(ed)...101... “There’s no way you have a fever,” he said. “Your face is just flushed..."

Go, Staci, go, go!


rocktivity

[crim son]

4. I absolutely have mixed feelings on this one.

What happened to Hickox was regrettable but not terminal or even, ultimately, damaging to her reputation or career. This lawsuit however makes her look vindictive and lacking in understanding for the real and justified fear people were experiencing during the time of the Ebola outbreak. I realize many will disagree but as a Mainer who had many conversations with locals about the episode, I do not admire this latest move on her part. Not at all.