The “Occupy the Courts” group has been denied permission to demonstrate outside a Manhattan courthouse as part of a national day of protests near federal courthouses over Citizens United, which prohibits the government from limiting independent spending for political purposes by corporations and unions.

A federal district court judge in Houston has acquitted John O’Shea, the former general manager of the U.S. subsidiary of global manufacturing giant ABB, of charges that he bribed officials at a Mexican state-owned utility.

A D.C. federal judge has issued a final judgment of nearly $1.2 billion in compensatory and punitive damages against the government of Iran for its role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, writing that the defendants “must be punished to the fullest extent legally possible.”

Saying the government “effectively snookered” the defense, a D.C. federal judge on Thursday criticized prosecutors for litigation tactics in a foreign bribery case that kept defense lawyers in the dark about key notes that belong to a government witness.

According to court records, 383 plaintiffs have agreed to settle their claims against the government that radiation from the now-shuttered Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state made them sick. Fewer than 1,000 plaintiffs now remain in a case that’s been pending in federal court for 21 years.