Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer broke his shoulder in a fall from his bicycle and underwent surgery Saturday morning, according to a court spokeswoman. 
 
 The 74-year-old justice was resting comfortably and is expected to be released from Georgetown University Hospital early in the week. 
 
 Breyer was riding his bike Friday afternoon near the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, next to the Lincoln Memorial, when he took a fall, according to the statement. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance. 
 
 Breyer has had his share of out-of-the-courtroom troubles of late. Last year, he and his wife were robbed at knife-point in their winter vacation home on a Caribbean island. Shortly afterward, their Georgetown home was burglarized. 
 
 Breyer also had a previous and painful bike accident. It happened in 1993 when he was being considered for the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton. He traveled from Boston to Washington to speak with the president despite having his arm in a sling. 
 
 That nomination went to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but Breyer was selected for the court the next year. 
 
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 Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg says the 74-year-old Breyer is expected to make a full recovery following the operation Saturday. 
 
 Breyer injured his right shoulder in a fall Friday near the Korean War Veterans Memorial. 
 
 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. 
 
 Breyer was appointed to the court in 1994 by President William Clinton.
– One of Stephen Breyer's Supreme Court clerks might gently suggest that it's time to put away the bike: Breyer broke his shoulder today after taking a spill in DC near the Korean War memorial, reports the Los Angeles Times. It's actually his third major bike accident, notes NPR. He broke a collarbone in 2011 and suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs after getting hit by a car in 1993. The 74-year-old had shoulder-replacement surgery this morning and is expected to make a full recovery, reports AP. (Why yes, this is the same justice who got robbed by machete last year.)