--- title: Nurse’s Lawyers Threaten to Sue Over Ebola Quarantine description: “We believe that the medical experts should be directing these policies, not the politicians” canonical: https://time.com/3540993/ebola-nurse-quarantine-lawsuit/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-27T11:22:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:01:22.529Z article:section: Health og:title: Nurse’s Lawyers Threaten to Sue Over Ebola Quarantine og:description: “We believe that the medical experts should be directing these policies, not the politicians” og:url: https://time.com/3540993/ebola-nurse-quarantine-lawsuit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nurse’s Lawyers Threaten to Sue Over Ebola Quarantine twitter:description: “We believe that the medical experts should be directing these policies, not the politicians” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Nurse's Lawyers Threaten to Sue Over Ebola Quarantine by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 27, 2014 11:22 AM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 27, 2014 11:22 AM UTC Lawyers for a nurse quarantined in a New Jersey hospital say they’ll sue to have her released in a constitutional challenge to state restrictions for health care workers returning to New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa. Civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel said Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined after arriving Friday at the Newark airport, shows no symptoms of being infected and should be released immediately. He and attorney Steven Hyman said the state attorney general’s office had cooperated in getting them access to Hickox… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nurses-lawyers-promise-legal-challenge-ebola-quarantine-n234416?cid=par-time-article%5F20141027) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3540993/ebola-nurse-quarantine-lawsuit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3540993/ebola-nurse-quarantine-lawsuit/"},"headline":"Nurse's Lawyers Threaten to Sue Over Ebola Quarantine","datePublished":"2014-10-27T11:22:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:01:22.529Z","description":"“We believe that the medical experts should be directing these policies, not the politicians”","url":"https://time.com/3540993/ebola-nurse-quarantine-lawsuit/","keywords":["ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3540993/ebola-nurse-quarantine-lawsuit/","name":"Nurse's Lawyers Threaten to Sue Over Ebola Quarantine"}}]}] ```