The judge, Col. James Pohl of the Army, signed the rulings in the two cases, each of which is in hearings on pretrial motions, on Tuesday, but the documents were not immediately made public.
At least one of the suspects had been let out of prison because a limit on his pretrial detention on a previous homicide charge had been reached.
Mr. Giordano still faces a trial by the state, which has scheduled a pretrial hearing on related charges on Wednesday.
It included tougher burdens of proof for investors, shorter statutes of limitation, limits on pretrial discovery, limits on liability for accountants, and rules forcing the loser to pay legal costs.
In one case, she said, a San Diego man accused of hacking into corporate computers was put on pretrial release and told not to use the Internet.
Roy will not discuss the case, scheduled to continue with pretrial motions on Jan . 31and a jury trial on March 5.
The new law, which will take effect on Oct. 1, lets defendants seek a pretrial hearing on whether they are retarded.
Lawyers who have filed the personal injury and class-action lawsuits had sought separate pretrial proceedings on the chance that discrepancies in depositions in one case could be used against the companies in others.
"Schettino's indictment certainly did not come unexpected," said Francesco Pepe, one of the captain's lawyers, who attended a pretrial hearing on Wednesday in Grosseto, a Tuscan city close to where the ship capsized.
But victims' lawyers pushed the case through appellate courts, leading to the pretrial hearing on Wednesday.
A close family member is in pretrial detention on charges of PKK membership.
