The issue focused on regulations affecting hospitals that handle Ebola patients and experts expressed doubts whether regulations covering hospitals handling Ebola patients could survive judicial scrutiny. The lawyers warned that requiring hospitals to isolate Ebola patients before admitting them could violate constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and interference with constitutional rights to privacy and bodily integrity.

Three lawsuits challenging regulations limiting liability for Ebola patient treatments remain pending in federal courts in Maryland and Louisiana. Lawyers representing hospitals suing over Ebola regulations argued that courts should defer to regulatory agencies because courts lack expertise in Ebola