A Dallas federal judge today canceled a scheduled deposition of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey that Exxon Mobil had planned to conduct in the attorney general’s climate-change litigation against the oil giant.

U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade of the Northern District of Texas issued the order canceling Healey’s deposition—which had been set to take place Tuesday—after Healey took the rare step of filing of a petition for mandamus against Kinkeade. Healey filed on Dec. 9 her mandamus petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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