Lawyers are lining up to fight subpoenas requiring them to testify remotely via video in a Boston antitrust trial, but the battle is over for Covington & Burling chairman Timothy Hester.

On Oct. 9, U.S. District Judge William Young agreed to block a subpoena from plaintiffs in the antitrust case that would have forced Hester to show up daily at the federal courthouse in Washington beginning on Oct. 20 and wait to see whether he would be called to testify.