--- description: After she said she'd defy it title: Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ebola](/tag/ebola/) ## ebola Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Maine to Seek Court Order to Force Ebola Quarantine on Nurse Kaci Hickox by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 29, 2014 11:01 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 29, 2014 11:01 PM CUT 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 "undefined") ```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"}}]}] ```