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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg Returns Home After Being Treated At Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has returned home after being hospitalized with chills and a fever.

Ginsburg was released from Johns Hopkins Hospital Sunday morning after being treated overnight and according to a release from the courts she is home and doing well.

The Supreme Court Justice was admitted Friday night to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for further evaluation and treatment of any possible infection.

With intravenous antibiotics and fluids, her symptoms abated and she expected to be released from the hospital as early as Sunday morning, the statement said.

Earlier this month Ginsburg, 86, suffered what the court described as a stomach bug. She was absent from arguments on Nov. 13 but returned for the court's next public meeting, on Nov. 18.

She has been treated for cancer twice in the past year and two other times since 1999. Over the summer she received radiation for a tumor on her pancreas. Last winter she underwent surgery for lung cancer.

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