Balancing Interests and Risk of Error: What Quarantine Process Is Due after Ebolamania

Authors

Jennifer Jolly-Ryan, Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of LawFollow

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. The Good Samaritan Nurse’s Return Home from Sierra Leone

III. Historical Background of Quarantines

IV. State and Federal Quarantine Powers ... A. The States’ Broad Police Powers and Quarantines … B. The Federal Government’s Commerce Power and Quarantines

V. Procedural Due Process Limits on Quarantine Powers … A. Weighing Individual Liberty Interests Quarantines Infringe ... B. Weighing the Risk of Error in Quarantine Procedures ... C. Weighing Government Interests, Adding Eradication of Discrimination

VI. Conclusion

Recommended Citation

Jennifer Jolly-Ryan, Balancing Interests and Risk of Error: What Quarantine Process Is Due after Ebolamania, 96 Neb. L. Rev. 100 (2017)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol96/iss1/4