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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE IN RE NEW MOTOR VEHICLES CANADIAN EXPORT ANTITRUST LITIGATION ] ] ]

MDL DOCKET NO. 1532

PROCEDURAL ORDER By letter of May 29, 2008, liaison counsel in this litigation provided me a transcript of a May 22, 2008, case management conference before the Honorable Richard Kramer of the California Superior Court, San Francisco. They have also asked me to notify them of the next steps that I believe would be appropriate in view of questions presented by Judge Kramer. I have read the transcript. I also asked the case manager to inquire of counsel what materials Judge Kramer had received when he conducted the conference. As a result, I understand that he had not received a copy of the transcript of the conference held before me on April 24, 2008. I therefore DIRECT counsel to provide Judge Kramer a copy of that transcript, since at that April 24 conference, various lawyers presented at some length their positions on some of the issues that concern Judge Kramer. After Judge Kramer has read the transcript, I am happy to talk directly with him by telephone at his convenience, and that might be simplest. Alternatively, if he or the parties prefer that we not talk by ourselves at this time, perhaps his June 10, 2008, conference scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, 4:30 p.m. Eastern time,

would be a time for us to hear jointly from the parties, to the degree that more remains to be said than what is contained in the transcripts of the two conferences. I will wait to hear from Judge Kramer or from counsel. SO ORDERED. DATED THIS 3RD DAY OF JUNE, 2008

/S/D. BROCK HORNBY D. BROCK HORNBY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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U.S. DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE (PORTLAND) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 2:03-MD-1532-DBH LIAISON COUNSEL For Plaintiffs Robert S. Frank Harvey & Frank P.O. Box 126 Portland, ME 04112 (207) 775-1300 email: frank@harveyfrank.com For Defendants William J. Kayatta, Jr. Clifford H. Ruprecht Pierce Atwood LLP One Monument Square Portland, ME 04101-4033 (207) 791-1100 email: wkayatta@pierceatwood.com email: cruprecht@pierceatwood.com PLAINTIFFS' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chair Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr. Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo 425 California Street, Suite 2100 San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 433-3200 email: jtabacco@bermanesq.com Todd A. Seaver Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo One Liberty Square, 8th floor Boston, MA 02109 (617) 542-8300 email: tseaver@bermanesq.com Vice-Chair Michael M. Buchman J. Douglas Richards Pomerantz, Haudek, Block, Grossman & Gross 100 Park Avenue, 26th floor New York, NY 10017 (212) 661-1000 email: mbuchman@pomlaw.com email: drichards@pomlaw.com

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Bernard Persky Hollis L. Salzman Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff LLP 100 Park Avenue, 12th floor New York, NY 10017 (212) 907-0700 Patrick E. Cafferty Jennifer Winter Sprengel Cafferty Faucher LLP 30 North LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 782-4880 Richard W. Cohen Lowey, Dannenberg Bemporad & Selinger, P.C. White Plains Plaza One North Broadway White Plains, NY 10601 (914) 997-0500 Robert J. LaRocca William E. Hoese Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. One South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 238-1700 Samuel D. Heins David Woodward Heins, Mills & Olsen, P.L.C. 3550 IDS Center 80 South Eighth Street Minneapolis, MN 55402 (612) 338-4605 Robert S. Frank Harvey & Frank P.O. Box 126 Portland, ME 04112 (207) 775-1300

DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL American Honda Motor Company, Inc. Honda Canada Inc. Robert A. Van Nest Ragesh Tangri Rachael Meny Daniel Purcell Keker & Van Nest, LLP 710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111-1704 (415) 391-5400 David B. McConnell Perkins Thompson, P.A. P.O. Box 426 Portland, ME 04112-0426 (207) 774-2635 Canadian Automobile Dealers Association Daniel Loeb Thomas McConnell Elisabeth M. Stein Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 (202) 639-7000

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Chrysler LLC Chrysler Motors LLC Chrysler Canada, Inc. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC Steven A. Newborn James C. Egan, Jr. Kirsten A. Lockhart Carrie M. Anderson Weil Gotshal & Manges 1300 I Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 (202) 682-7000 William J. Kayatta, Jr. Clifford H. Ruprecht Pierce Atwood LLP One Monument Square Portland, ME 04101-4033 (207) 791-1100 Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. Margaret M. Zwisler William R. Sherman Gregory S. Seador Charles R. Price Latham & Watkins LLP 555 Eleventh Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20004-1304 (202) 637-2200 General Motors Corporation General Motors of Canada, Ltd. Saab Cars USA, Inc. Saturn Corporation GMAC LLC Richard C. Godfrey, P.C. David J. Zott, P.C. Daniel E. Laytin Kirkland & Ellis LLP 200 E. Randolph Street Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 861-2000 National Automobile Dealers Association Glenn A. Mitchell David U. Fierst Stein, Mitchell & Mezines LLP 1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 737-7777 Bruce C. Gerrity PretiFlaherty P.O. Box 1058 Augusta, ME 0433-1058 (207) 623-5167

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Nissan North America, Inc. Peter Sullivan Joshua Lipton Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166 (212) 351-4000 Harold J. Friedman Laurence Leavitt Friedman, Gaythwaite, Wolf & Leavitt Six City Center, Suite 400 Portland, ME 04112-4726 (207) 761-0900 Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. Michael R. Lazerwitz Lee F. Berger Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20006 (202) 974-1500 James T. Kilbreth Dylan Smith Verrill Dana LLP P.O. Box 586 Portland, ME 04112-0586 (207) 774-4000

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