Action by Exxon Mobil Corporation to bar enforcement of civil investigative demand issued by Massachusetts attorney general and subpoena issued by New York attorney general.
In re Healey
Geography
Year
2016
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
About this case
Filing year
2016
Status
Emergency motion for stay pending mandamus filed.
Geography
Docket number
16-11741
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (5th Cir.)
Case category
Constitutional Claims (US) → Commerce Clause (US)Constitutional Claims (US) → First Amendment (US)Constitutional Claims (US) → Fourteenth Amendment (US)Constitutional Claims (US) → Other Constitutional Claims (US)State Law Claims (US) → Enforcement Cases (US)
Principal law
United States → Commerce ClauseUnited States → First AmendmentUnited States → Fourteenth AmendmentUnited States → Fourth AmendmentUnited States → State Law—Common LawUnited States → State Law—Miscellaneous StatutesUnited States → Supremacy Clause
At issue
Documents
Filing Date
Document
Type
12/09/2016
Petition for writ of mandamus filed by Healey.
On December 9, the Massachusetts attorney general asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay of discovery pending the Fifth Circuit’s disposition of the attorney general’s petition for a writ of mandamus challenging the district court’s jurisdictional discovery orders, in which the district court raised concerns regarding whether the attorney general commenced her investigation of Exxon in good faith. The Massachusetts attorney general filed the petition for writ of mandamus after the district court denied her motion for reconsideration of the jurisdictional discovery order and her request for stay of discovery and vacatur and reconsideration of the order requiring her to appear for the deposition.
Petition