(December 8, 2016, 4:52 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of a split Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that overturned controlling case law pertaining to the privacy of criminal booking photos, a newspaper operator on Nov. 22 filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, asking the U.S Supreme to decide whether the photos are susceptible to production requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (Detroit Free Press Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice, No. 16-706, U.S. Sup.)....