Ebola-quarantined U.S. nurse to sue in test of states' policies

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - (This version of the Oct. 26 story was corrected to say Michelle Mello is a professor of law and health policy at Stanford University, not at Harvard University. She is an adjunct professor at Harvard.) New Jersey's mandatory quarantine for certain travellers from Ebola-stricken West Africa will likely face its first legal test this week, after a lawyer for a quarantined nurse said she would file a federal lawsuit within days. Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer, said Kaci Hickox's isolation upon her return from West Africa raised "serious constitutional and civil liberties issues," given that she shows no Ebola symptoms and has not tested positive for the disease. Read More http://ift.tt/1vb3s7p