Kaci Hickox lawyers argue lawsuit over quarantine should go forward

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Source: Bangor Daily News

Attorneys for Kaci Hickox, the former Fort Kent nurse who treated Ebola patients in Africa, argued Tuesday that her federal lawsuit against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and public health officials over her quarantine in 2014 should go forward.

Lawyers for the governor and state employees in January filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Trenton, New Jersey. The motion to dismiss claimed that state employees, including Christie, are immune from the claims Hickox, who now lives in Springfield, Oregon, has made. The state also said that she does not have a clearly established right to avoid a quarantine and that the decision to impose a quarantine was made without malice.

Hickox’s attorneys said Tuesday in a response to the motion to dismiss that “there was no probable cause to quarantine Hickox.” Lawyers are seeking a hearing on the motion, but that has not been scheduled.

The document reiterated many of the arguments in the complaint.

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[Jake Stern]

1. Good on her

Constitutional rights go bye bye when Joe Sixpack can be made to soil his tidy whities over the latest disease boogeyman.

Oh my goooooooooood! Bird Flu! Swine Flu! Trump Flu! Ebola! Zika! Eeeeegads!

No symptoms, no positive tests, no rational reason to essentially lock her up then mock her and call her "selfish" when she has the temerity to call bullshit on this mass fucking hysteria induced trampling of her rights.