Kaci Hickox, a nurse placed in 21-day quarantine in a New Jersey hospital after returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, is taking New Jersey to court stating her constitutional rights have been violated, according to the New York Daily News.
Hickox's attorney Norman Siegel said that her confinement at a Newark, N.J., hospital raises constitutional and civil liberties issues, the Daily News reported.
Hickox has not shown any symptoms and has not tested positive for Ebola, according to Siegel, who is a prominent civil liberties lawyer, according to the Daily News.
"The policy is overly broad when applied to her," Siegel said, the newspaper reported.
The mandatory quarantine has been imposed a day after New York doctor Craig Spencer was diagnosed with Ebola on Thursday after returning from treating patients in Guinea, according to NPR.
In an interview with CNN, Hickox criticized the quarantine as she described hours of questioning after arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport. She also spoke about her transfer to a hospital isolation tent.
"First of all, I don't think he (Christie) is a doctor, and second of all, he's never laid eyes on me," Hickox, 33, said during the CNN interview which was conducted by phone from her quarantine tent outside University Hospital in Newark.
Hickox said Christie was "just wrong" when he described her as "obviously ill," because she has no fever or other symptoms of the virus, according to the Daily News.
Hickox works for Doctors Without Borders and contracted the disease while treating patients in Sierra Leone. Doctors Without Borders said it does not know when Hickox could be released, the Daily News reported.
During a news conference on Sunday night, new York Mayor Bill de Blasio explained the specifics of the procedure which follows CDC protocol, and explained he did not agree with Hickox's treatment, according to the Daily News.
