Justice Breyer suffers broken collarbone in bike spill

By: KIMBERLY ATKINS, BridgeTower Media Newswires//June 6, 2011//

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Boston, MA – Justice Stephen Breyer is recovering from injuries he suffered when he took a spill on his bicycle over the weekend near his home in Cambridge, Mass.

The 72-year-old justice suffered a broken collarbone in the accident, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg told the Associated Press. Breyer was not at the Court Tuesday when decisions were announced, but is expected to attend speaking engagements this week as scheduled.

This isn’t the first time Breyer was injured in Cambridge on a bike. In 1993, when he was a First Circuit judge being considered by President Bill Clinton for a Supreme Court spot, Breyer was hit by a car while riding his bike in Harvard Square. He suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs, but still traveled to Washington to be interviewed by the president. Clinton picked Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But it all worked out in the end – Breyer got the nod a year later.

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