National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish

National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish et al., 541 U.S. 157 (2004) is a United States Supreme Court ruling about the Freedom of Information Act concerning the release of photos surrounding the suicide of Vince Foster, then Deputy White House Counsel.^[1] The court ruled unanimously that a family has the right to invoke a deceased individual's right to privacy and the unwarranted invasion of privacy exception in the Act must have evidence of improper conduct to overturn the exception.^[2]

National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 3, 2003 Decided March 30, 2004
Full case name	National Archives and Records Administration v. Allan J. Favish, et al.
Docket no.	02-954
Citations	541 U.S. 157 (more)
Case history
Prior	United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Holding
(i) A family has the right to invoke a deceased individual's right to privacy (ii) the unwarranted invasion of privacy exception in the FOIA must have evidence of improper conduct to overturn
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Anthony Kennedy, joined by a unanimous court
Laws applied
5 U.S.C. § 552