‘PREPOSTEROUS’: NURSE READIES LEGAL BATTLE AGAINST FORCED QUARANTINE (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 13:47

After testing negative for Ebola for a third time on Monday morning, nurse Kaci Hickox has been told by New Jersey officials that she will be released from her forced isolation at a Newark hospital and be allowed to return to her home in Maine as early as this afternoon.

“She will remain subject to New Jersey’s mandatory quarantine order while in New Jersey,” the State of New Jersey Department of Health said in a statement. “Health officials in Maine have been notified of her arrangements and will make a determination under their own laws on her treatment when she arrives.”

The decision by the state followed widespread criticism of Hickox’s three-day forced quarantine and subsequent to a lawyer who took up her case announcing that the nurse was willing to proceed with filing suit against Gov. Christ Christie and the state for violating her constitutional rights.

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