CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA V . INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

Does the First Amendment require strict scrutiny when a state compels the public release of identifying information about petition signers?

Can a person who was not a party to a prior lawsuit be bound by the judgment in that lawsuit simply because they are closely associated with a party who was?

Whether the Office of Independent Counsel properly withheld, under FOIA's Exemption 7(C), photographs relating to the death of former Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster.

Whether communications between the Department of Interior and Indian tribes regarding water allocations qualified as "inter-agency or intra-agency" documents. The central legal question was if these documents, which would normally be privileged in civil discovery, were exempt from disclosure under FOIA Exemption 5.

Whether the government is entitled to a presumption that all sources supplying information to the FBI during a criminal investigation are "confidential sources" under Exemption 7(D) of the Freedom of Information Act.

Whether a federal agency's refusal to disclose an individual's personal FBI criminal history record to a third party is justifiable under the "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" exemption of the Freedom of Information Act.