In it, she argues state officials illegally held her against her will, Fox News reports.
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Hickox’s 35-page complaint, filed in the United States District Court of New Jersey, also names as defendants Mary O’Dowd, the former state health commissioner, as well as Christopher Rinn and Gary Ludwig, two other employees of the state health department. On her way home, she landed at Newark Liberty global Airport on October 24 and became the first health worker ensnared in a new Christie administration policy to impose a 21-day mandatory quarantine on travelers arriving from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea who had come in contact with Ebola patients.
Kaci Hickox, 34, contends that Christie and the New Jersey Health Department violated her rights by depriving her of due process and unlawfully detaining her.
A spokesman for Christie said the office isn’t commenting on the pending legal matter.
The New Jersey Senate will vote on Thursday whether to override Governor Chris Christie’s veto of a bill that requires courts and law enforcement to exchange information before people trying to purchase a firearm can have their medical records expunged.
History was made at the State House Thursday afternoon: Senate Democrats overrode a Gov. Chris Chrstie veto, battling back against his rejection of a gun control measure aimed at keeping firearms away from those with histories of mental illness.
Mr Christie said a year ago he was doing his duty to keep people safe. This time, as Sweeney’s own gubernatorial run has intensified parallel to Christie’s presidential run, Kean sided with the Republican governor.
“At times his comments about that bothered me because I have gone against him several times now”, he said.
It specifically accuses Christie – now a Republican candidate for president – of making false statements that implied that Hickox had symptoms of Ebola when he knew that she didn’t. She then was driven to Maine, where she decided against following the state’s voluntary quarantine. She said numerous people interrogated her, including ‘a man who spoke to Hickox aggressively as if she were a criminal and was wearing a weapon belt’.
While she didn’t have a fever when her temperature was first taken, she said she was told by a medical staffer using a temporal scanner that she did have a fever. A Maine judge later ruled that she could not be forced into quarantine, but must submit to daily health monitoring and inform officials of any changes to her health or travel plans for three weeks.
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Her suit lays out a series of temperature readings that were elevated when checked with a temporal thermometer, but normal when taken orally.
