--- title: Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox description: After she said she'd defy it canonical: https://time.com/3547224/ebola-maine-quarantine/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-29T23:01:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:06:26.108Z article:section: Health og:title: Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox og:description: After she said she'd defy it og:url: https://time.com/3547224/ebola-maine-quarantine/ 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: Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox twitter:description: After she said she'd defy it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 29, 2014 11:01 PM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 29, 2014 11:01 PM UTC Maine officials will seek a court order to force Kaci Hickox, a nurse who recently returned from treating Ebla patients in West Africa, to self-quarantine at home after Hickox said she wouldn’t voluntarily quarantine herself. Hickox, who is holed up in a house in the town of Fort Kent, gave the state until Thursday to let her move freely and threatened to take the matter to court otherwise. But Maine Health Commissioner Mary Mayhew said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that “when it is made clear by an individual in this risk category that they do not intend to voluntarily stay at home for the remaining 21 days, we will immediate see a court order.” [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/maine-seek-court-order-force-ebola-quarantine-nurse-kaci-hickox-n236416?cid=par-time-article%5F20141029) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3547224/ebola-maine-quarantine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3547224/ebola-maine-quarantine/"},"headline":"Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox","datePublished":"2014-10-29T23:01:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:06:26.108Z","description":"After she said she'd defy it","url":"https://time.com/3547224/ebola-maine-quarantine/","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/3547224/ebola-maine-quarantine/","name":"Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox"}}]}] ```