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Blog Round-up – Tuesday, June 21st

A documentary presentation has been produced by InHeritage, a website design company that specializes in historical content, on the disputed presidential election of 1876, and how five Justices from the Supreme Court were part of the commission created to resolve it. You can launch the presentation, as well as one about FDR’s court packing scheme, from here.

Lam Memo’s Arbitration Blog has this post on Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna. Cert was granted in the case yesterday.

Sentencing Law & Policy recaps yesterday’s decisions here.

On this day in 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that burning the American flag in public to protest government policies is a right protected by the First Amendment. The Jurist has more here.