Victims of deadly terrorist attacks in 1998 at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were awarded more than $8 billion on Friday by a federal judge in Washington, D.C.

Combined, the four judgments (see the opinions here, here, here and here) entered by U.S. District Judge John Bates represented one of the largest sets of awards since 2008, when Congress approved legislation to make it easier for terror victims to sue foreign governments over responsibility for attacks.