After the Eighth Circuit reinstated a $220,000 damages award against a Minnesota woman in a high-profile recording industry suit over illegal music downloads, her lawyers vowed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Here's a cautionary tale for litigation finance fans. Juridica invested about $3 million in S&T's ICSID arbitration against Romania. But then S&T's lawyers at King & Spalding wanted out, Juridica wanted to know why, and now S&T is claiming the litigation funder is "unethical."