HEALTH : Ex-Justice Powell Hospitalized
Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was rushed to a hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., today with an acute respiratory infection, a court spokeswoman said.
Kathy Arberg, the Supreme Court’s assistant public information officer, said Powell, 81, was admitted to the Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville about 1:15 p.m. Powell is in Florida serving as a visiting judge on a three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. He retired from the nation’s highest court June 26, 1987, citing concerns about his health as one reason. He had suffered from prostate cancer.
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