Justice Breyer has shoulder surgery after bike accident [View all]
Source: USA Today
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer broke his right shoulder Saturday in a fall from his bicycle in downtown Washington, the court said.
Breyer, 74, was taken to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital by ambulance and underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery -- similar to standard replacement surgery -- court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement. Breyer was bicycling near the Korean War Veterans Memorial along the Mall when the accident occurred, the statement said. No further details on the were provided.
"The justice is resting comfortably" and is expected to be released from the hospital within a few days, the announcement said. The justice previously broke his collarbone in an accident in 2011 and sustained broken ribs and a punctured lung in a bicycle mishap in 1993, before he joined the court.
The court has finished holding hearings for the current term, and is now beginning the work on remaining opinions, with a recess for the summer likely in late June. Breyer, a San Francisco native, was appointed to the court in 1994 by President Clinton to replace retiring justice Harry Blackmun.
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