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Kaci Hickox, the nurse detained at a Newark hospital last year over fears she had contracted the Ebola virus, filed suit against Gov. Chris Christie and members of his administration Thursday, saying the governor violated her civil rights for political gain. 
  
 Hickox, 34, whose confinement made international headlines for weeks, had been caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone before her arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport, a waypoint to her home in Maine. She was held in isolation for more than three days, first at the airport and then at University Hospital despite testing negative for the deadly virus. 
  
 Her detention marked the first test of strict new policies put in place earlier in the day by Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo concerning returning health workers. 
  
 "I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola. I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's private prison," Hickox said in a statement Thursday. "My liberty, my interests and consequently my civil rights were ignored because some ambitious governors saw an opportunity to use an age-old political tactic: fear." 
  
 The suit, filed in federal court in Newark, names as defendants Christie, former state Health Commissioner Mary O'Dowd and other Health Department officials. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and two New York law firms are representing Hickox, now a clinical nurse in Oregon. 
  
 Hickox's attorneys, who formally announced the suit at a 3 p.m. press conference in Manhattan, contend the Christie administration adopted a flawed quarantine process more stringent than federal standards and kept the nurse confined despite obvious evidence she was not ill and did not have Ebola. 
  
 "The decision to quarantine anyone must be made based on science, not fear and politics," said Udi Ofer, executive director of the ACLU of New Jersey. "In holding Kaci Hickox, the governor and the former head of the Department of Health not only violated her basic constitutional rights, but they did so without any scientific foundation. Now, a year later, we are proud to help Kaci vindicate those rights." 
  
 A spokesman for Christie said Thursday that because the suit represents a pending legal matter, the governor would have no comment. 
  
 The suit does not name University Hospital or its medical personnel as defendants. 
  
 Hickox, answering questions at the press conference via Skype, said her doctors and caregivers were not targeted because they weren't the ones responsible for her detainment. 
  
 "It was always clear that the workers in the hospital treated me very well. They were wonderful and compassionate and kind," she said. "It was always clear that some of those decisions weren't being made by them. They clearly didn't have the power to make them." 
  
 Ofer said his office requested documents about the episode from New Jersey officials, but when they received about 1,200 pages in response to their request, "99 percent" of the text was blacked out. 
  
 Another lawyer for Hickox, Steve Hyman, said an additional aim of the lawsuit is to overturn the state's quarantine policy, which remains in effect. 
  
 "While this lawsuit has been filed to vindicate Kaci's constitutional rights, an important corollary of this action is to change the existing New Jersey quarantine policy so that what happened to Kaci will not happen to another health care worker on their return," Hyman said. 
  
 The lawsuit details, for the first time, that Hickox was actually cleared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while still at the airport. That information was in documents her attorneys acquired from the CDC in preparing the lawsuit. 
  
 Those documents also show Hickcox was told she would be quarantined almost immediately after disclosing she'd been a medical volunteer in West Africa -- before any kind of screening took place, the lawsuit states. 
  
 The lawsuit seeks damages of $250,000. The dollar amount was determined by putting a price tag of $2,000 for each of the 80 hours during which she was quarantined, along with an additional 60 percent of that for punitive damages, the attorneys said. 
  
 Because Christie and officials in his administration are being sued as individuals, any judgement against them would come out of their own pockets, said Norm Siegel, the other Manhattan attorney on Hickox's team. That would have a strong deterrence to other officials who wanted to come up with health policies that were not rooted in medical science, he said. 
  
 At the time of the episode, Christie was dismissive of her situation, saying, "I've been sued lots of times before. Get in line. I'm happy to take it on." 
  
 The governor added that he was sorry for the inconvenience to Hickox but that his highest priority was to safeguard the people of New Jersey. 
  
 Hickox, who has masters degrees in nursing and public health, spent a month in Sierra Leone, working for Doctors Without Borders as a nurse and medical team leader tending to Ebola patients amid an outbreak of the virus. 
  
 According to the lawsuit, she was highly trained in precautionary measures and was never exposed to bodily fluids, the chief form of transmission. 
  
 She left the African nation on Oct. 22 and spent two days in Brussels before flying to Newark, where she disclosed she had treated Ebola patients overseas. 
  
 Following protocol, airport officials escorted her to a quarantine site operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A temporal scanning thermometer showed her temperature to be normal, the suit says, but Hickox was repeatedly questioned by a succession of people, one of whom acted aggressively and wore a weapon belt. 
  
 "Hickox was tired from jetlag and traveling for two days, hungry, thirsty, confused and emotionally exhausted," the suit states. "No one told her what was going on or what was going to happen to her." 
  
 Meanwhile, at a press conference, Christie confirmed a health worker returning from West Africa had been quarantined as a precaution despite her apparent fine health. 
  
 Later in the afternoon, as Hickox's frustration mounted, a nurse again used a temporal scanning thermometer on her forehead, indicating to Hickox she had a fever, the suit states. Fever is one indication of Ebola. 
  
 "Hickox explained to the woman that her face was flushed from frustration," the suit states. "Hickox also said she did not believe the temporal scanner was accurate. Despite her emotional distress, Hickox felt physically healthy. She did not feel fevered." 
  
 By evening, over her continued protests, Hickox was taken by ambulance -- accompanied by an escort of eight police vehicles, sirens blaring -- to University Hospital, where she was placed in an isolation tent that would become her home for nearly three days. 
  
 While an oral thermometer repeatedly showed her temperature to be normal, a temporal thermometer at times continued to show a slightly elevated temperature as high as 102 degrees, the suit states, adding that a doctor told Hickox he did not believe the temporal thermometer was working properly. 
  
 The isolation tent, in a cold room with exposed pipes, had no telephone and no computer, leaving Hickox with limited access to the outside world. 
  
 When she was at last released, the suit said, three medical workers drove her to her home in Maine, where state officials sought to quarantine her. She fought the home confinement in court and won. 
  
 Siegel said that ultimately Christie will have to explain his policy-making decisions in response to the lawsuit. 
  
 "There's no question the buck stops with Governor Christie," he said. 
  
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 The governor had instituted a policy requiring anyone traveling from affected countries who might have had contact with Ebola patients to undergo a 21-day quarantine upon arrival, whether or not they showed any signs of illness. But Hickox made such a stink about being kept in a tent in Newark’s University Hospital that Christie soon relented and let her go home to Maine to finish out her quarantine (Ebola panic and the attendant media circus soon followed her there). 
  
 Well, now she’s back, and it seems she’s still pretty sore about the whole ordeal. Hickox revealed on Thursday that she is suing Christie, along with several current and former New Jersey health officials, for violating her constitutional rights. 
  
 The lawsuit, backed by the ACLU of New Jersey, alleges that these officials violated her Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable seizure as well as her Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and that they subjected her to false imprisonment, invaded her privacy, and cast her in a false light, referring to Christie’s public statements at the time implying that she was sick with Ebola. 
  
 Hickox is demanding a minimum of $250,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. 
  
 In a statement released through the ACLU, the nurse accused Christie of holding her in a “private prison,” not for any legitimate public health reason, but rather “because some ambitious governors saw an opportunity to use an age-old political tactic: fear.” 
  
 The other governor alluded to in that statement would be New York’s own Andrew Cuomo, who implemented a quarantine policy during the Ebola pandemic very similar to Christie’s take-no-chances approach. Cuomo, too, backed down on his order within a few days after widespread criticism. |||||
Chris Christie is still running for president, but the New Jersey governor's treatment of a nurse a year ago is making more headlines this week than his campaign. Nurse Kaci Hickox, who was put in mandatory quarantine in a Newark, NJ, hospital after returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, has filed a $250,000 lawsuit against the New Jersey governor and state health officials for violating her civil rights, NJ.com reports. "I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola. I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's private prison," she said in a statement released by the ACLU. The lawsuit reveals for the first time that the CDC cleared Hickox before she left the airport, NJ.com notes. "My liberty, my interests, and consequently my civil rights were ignored because some ambitious governors saw an opportunity to use an age-old political tactic: fear," Hickox said. The other governor she's referring to is New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who, like Christie, backed down from a hard-line quarantine policy within days, New York notes. Hickox's lawyers say Christie is being sued as an individual, which they hope will dissuade other officials from violating the civil rights of health workers, especially when there's no valid scientific reason to do so, NJ.com reports. After she was released from quarantine in New Jersey, Hickox successfully fought quarantine in Maine and now works in Oregon. (A new test can detect every human—and animal—virus there is.)