Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure Monday, causing him to fall while at his summer home off the coast of Maine, the Supreme Court said.I wish him a speedy and uneventful recovery.
Roberts has "fully recovered from the incident," and a neurological evaluation "revealed no cause for concern," the Supreme Court said in a statement.
Doctors called the incident a "benign idiopathic seizure," similar to one suffered by the chief justice in 1993, the court statement said. An idiopathic seizure is one with no identifiable physiological cause.
A source close to the chief justice told CNN that Roberts fell five to 10 feet after the seizure.
Roberts, 52, was conscious after the fall, which caused only minor scrapes, the Supreme Court said.
The chief justice was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital in Rockport, where he is expected to stay overnight, officials said.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Chief Justice Hospitalized
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