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.

We knew the Justice Department had been using the False Claims Act and piggybacking on whistleblower suits to go after big players in the mortgage crisis. Now we have a better idea of the extent of the campaign, thanks to the documents that the DOJ filed Monday in connection with last month's $25 billion foreclosure settlement.