Two women accusing former financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse lost on several requests they’d made in their suit against the U.S. government over its infamous plea deal with the convicted sex offender.

The decision came from the same federal judge who had ruled that prosecutors broke federal law in handling Epstein’s case more than a decade ago, when former U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta had negotiated the agreement as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.