NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION v. FAVISH

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 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.