The issue focused on the fact that the law is so broad in its application to all US citizens and not just in the case of "confirmed cases" of Ebola. It is not as if the law is only about "confirmed cases" of Ebola, as the law would have to be read to include all people with a history of getting the disease in the US in the last year in which a case of Ebola was confirmed in the US - a number of years that is also not as long as the years