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<blockquote data-quote="DragonBits" data-source="post: 178382" data-attributes="member: 18023"><p>The story I read said she did sue the health department and New York Supreme Court denied her petition.</p><p></p><p><em>Based on Soper’s sleuthing, the New York City Health Department took Mallon into custody in 1907 and placed her into forced confinement inside a bungalow on 16-acre North Brother Island, off the Bronx shoreline, with only a fox terrier as a companion. “I never had typhoid in my life and have always been healthy,” Mallon wrote. “Why should I be banished like a leper and compelled to live in solitary confinement with only a dog for a companion?” Armed with test results from a private laboratory that came up negative, Mallon in 1909 sued the health department for her freedom, but the New York Supreme Court denied her petition. Where did Mallon get the money to hire a lawyer and pay the legal bills? Leavitt says speculation has fallen on newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who “had done so for other people whose stories interested his newspaper’s readers.” In 1910, new health commissioner Ernst Lederle agreed to release Mallon if she pledged never to work as a cook again.</em></p><p></p><p>I agree, the state did have more than enough evidence to prove the danger she presented. </p><p></p><p>But the danger she represented was being asymptomatic and ignoring the health of others. (Despite the fact that hundreds of other asymptomatic carriers had been identified, she behaved in a way that ignored the health of society. </p><p></p><p>Which seems to be the principal we had been debating, can the US government limit your freedom if you are acting in a way to endanger the health of others even though it's not spelled out in the constitution or are there any laws I am aware of that she broke.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DragonBits, post: 178382, member: 18023"] The story I read said she did sue the health department and New York Supreme Court denied her petition. [I]Based on Soper’s sleuthing, the New York City Health Department took Mallon into custody in 1907 and placed her into forced confinement inside a bungalow on 16-acre North Brother Island, off the Bronx shoreline, with only a fox terrier as a companion. “I never had typhoid in my life and have always been healthy,” Mallon wrote. “Why should I be banished like a leper and compelled to live in solitary confinement with only a dog for a companion?” Armed with test results from a private laboratory that came up negative, Mallon in 1909 sued the health department for her freedom, but the New York Supreme Court denied her petition. Where did Mallon get the money to hire a lawyer and pay the legal bills? Leavitt says speculation has fallen on newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who “had done so for other people whose stories interested his newspaper’s readers.” In 1910, new health commissioner Ernst Lederle agreed to release Mallon if she pledged never to work as a cook again.[/I] I agree, the state did have more than enough evidence to prove the danger she presented. But the danger she represented was being asymptomatic and ignoring the health of others. (Despite the fact that hundreds of other asymptomatic carriers had been identified, she behaved in a way that ignored the health of society. Which seems to be the principal we had been debating, can the US government limit your freedom if you are acting in a way to endanger the health of others even though it's not spelled out in the constitution or are there any laws I am aware of that she broke. [/QUOTE]
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