#Arizona woman loses legal fight over Cuomo’s quarantine rules

An Arizona woman sued to fight New York’s 14-day quarantine requirement for travelers from hot-spot coronavirus states — arguing that it unfairly stopped her from helping friends move house and going sightseeing with her pals.

But a judge this week tossed the suit, ruling that the restrictions in the middle of a pandemic were not an “invasion” of her “fundamental right to travel” as she’d claimed.

Cynthia Page filed an emergency suit in the Northern District of New York in July following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s June 24 executive order requiring visitors on a travel advisory list to isolate after coming into the Empire State.

Page said she had plans to fly in to help her friends pack and move from a house in Brooklyn, but had to cancel the trip because Arizona was and still is on the list of “restricted states” — even though she didn’t have the virus and wasn’t exposed to anyone who did.

Page also said it deprived her of her “last chance to see the sights of New York City with [her friends],” which “was and continues to be very upsetting.”

But federal Judge David Hurd said in a ruling Tuesday that the order doesn’t violate Page’s right to travel.

“Far from it,” Hurd wrote.

“Under the plain terms of the Executive Order, individuals from restricted states remain free to enter New York,” the ruling says. “They must comply with the quarantine requirement after they arrive … any traveler who completes the quarantine remains completely free to travel freely within the state itself.”

“There is nothing conscience-shocking about the Executive Order,” Hurd said adding, “states around the country are grappling with an unfolding public health crisis.”

Not only did Hurd deny Page’s request for immediate action against the travel restriction, the judge also tossed the entire lawsuit.

There are now 33 states — along with Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands — on the advisory list. States land on the list when they have a positive coronavirus test rate higher than 10 per 10,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average, or a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over the same time frame.

Page’s lawyer, David Yerushalmi, told The Post, “We thought the judge’s decision was thoughtful but wrong.

“Judge Hurd has responded out of the fear of the pandemic but has ignored basic constitutional law.”

A spokesman for the governor’s office, Richard Azzopardi told The Post, “I’ve lost track of the frivolous suits filed against the state during this pandemic.”