ST. GEORGE — Chief Justice John Roberts was taken to a hospital in Maine on Monday after a seizure, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.

Roberts, 52, has a summer home on an island in St. George.

Roberts was taken to Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport as a precaution after the seizure. He received minor scrapes when he fell during the episode, Arberg said.

Phone messages requesting a condition listing were not returned Monday afternoon.

Arberg said Roberts was expected to remain at the hospital overnight.

Roberts, named to the court by President Bush in 2005, has no known medical conditions although he did not drive for several months during the 1990s after a fainting episode. He is the youngest justice on a court in which the senior member, John Paul Stevens, is 87.

Roberts is the father of two young children.

He bought the home on Hupper Island off Port Clyde last year. Port Clyde is about 90 miles by car northeast of Portland, midway up the coast of Maine.