A federal judge in Boston on Thursday agreed to block a subpoena that would have forced Covington & Burling chairman Timothy Hester to be on call for an unspecified number of days to testify via video in an antitrust trial.

U.S. District Judge William Young didn’t provide a written explanation for his decision to grant Hester’s request to quash the subpoena. Under the subpoena, Hester would have been required to show up daily to the federal courthouse in Washington beginning Oct. 20 and wait to see if he was called to testify.

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