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1 Michael L. Weiner (Pro hac vice) SKADDEN ARPS SLATE MEAGHER & 2 FLOM LLP Four Times Square 3 New York, New York 10036-6522 Telephone: (212) 735-3000 4 Douglas B. Adler (Cal. Bar No. 130749) 5 SKADDEN ARPS SLATE MEAGHER & FLOM LLP 6 300 South Grand Avenue, Suite 3400 Los Angeles, California 90071-3144 7 Telephone: (213) 687-5000 8 Sara L. Bensley (Pro hac vice) SKADDEN ARPS SLATE MEAGHER & 9 FLOM LLP 1440 New York Avenue, N.W. 10 Washington, D.C. 20005-2111 Telephone: (202) 371-7000 11 Attorneys for Defendant 12 AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. 13 [Additional Counsel Listed on Signature Page] 14 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

16 MICHAEL SHAMES; GARY GRAMKOW, on behalf of themselves and 17 on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Case No. 07 CV 2174 H BLM 18 19 v. 20 THE HERTZ CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation; DOLLAR 21 THRIFTY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation; AVIS BUDGET 22 GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation; VANGUARD CAR RENTAL USA, INC., 23 an Oklahoma corporation; ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR COMPANY, a Missouri 24 corporation; FOX RENT A CAR, INC., a California corporation; COAST LEASING 25 CORP., a Texas corporation; and THE CALIFORNIA TRAVEL AND TOURISM 26 COMMISSION 27 28 Defendants. Plaintiffs, [Class Action]

OF MOTION AND MOTION TO DISMISS THE FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Date: July 14, 2008 Time: 10:30 a.m. Place: Courtroom 13 Honorable Marilyn L. Huff

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1 TO ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: 2 3 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on July 14, 2008, at 10:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter

4 as the matter may be heard, in Courtroom 13, of the above-entitled Court, located at 880 Front 5 Street, No. 4290, San Diego, California 92101-8900, Defendants The Hertz Corporation, Dollar 6 Thrifty Automotive Group Inc., Avis Budget Group, Inc., Vanguard Car Rental USA Inc., 7 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company, Fox Rent-A-Car Incorporated, and Coast Leasing Corp. 8 ) will and hereby do, move the Court for an order to

9 dismiss with prejudice the first, second and third causes of action in the First Amended Complaint 10 for Injunction, Money Damages and Declaratory Relief for failure to state a claim. 11 This Motion is made on the basis that the allegations that the Rental Car Defendants

12 violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, continue to fail to satisfy the pleading 13 requirements articulated by the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 127 S. Ct. 1955 14 15 r Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq., and the False

16 Advertising Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17500 et seq., on the grounds that 17 purported claim under the Unfair Competition Law is barred by Section 13995.90 of the California 18 19 with the California Tourism Marketing Act; (2) Plaintiffs do not and cannot show that the Rental 20 t; and (3) Plaintiffs do not and cannot

21 show that the conduct at issue violated the Sherman Act or any other law. Finally, the Rental Car 22 23 e § 1750 et seq., on two primary grounds, each independently sufficient

24 for dismissal: First, Plaintiffs have failed to allege any actionable representation; and second, 25 Plaintiffs have failed to allege reliance on a material misrepresentation. 26 This Motion is based on this Notice, the accompanying Memorandum of Points and Motion to Dismiss the First Amended
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1 JONES DAY 2 3 By: /s/ Jeffrey A. LeVee ______________ Jeffrey A. LeVee (Cal. Bar No. 125863) 4 555 South Flower Street 5 Fiftieth Floor Los Angeles, California 90071 6 Tel.: (213) 489-3939 7 Counsel for Defendant DOLLAR THRIFTY AUTOMOTIVE 8 GROUP, INC. 9 10 11 O MELVENY & MYERS LLP 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Gerald A. Stein (Pro hac vice) 22 23 24 Times Square Tower Seven Times Square New York, New York 10036 Tel.: (212) 326-2000 Embarcadero Center West 275 Battery Street Suite 2600 San Francisco, California 94111 Tel.: (415) 984-8700 By: /s/ Richard G. Parker______________ Richard G. Parker (Cal. Bar No. 62356) 1625 Eye Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Tel.: (202) 383-5300 Michael F. Tubach (Cal. Bar No. 145955) Thomas P. Brown (Cal. Bar No. 182916)

LONG, WILLIAMSON AND DELIS

By: _________________________________ T. Patrick Long (Cal. Bar No. 182394) 400 N. Tustin Ave. Suite 370 Santa Ana, California 92705 Tel: (714) 668-1400 Counsel for Defendant COAST LEASING CORP. dba ADVANTAGE RENT A CAR, erroneously sued and served herein as Coast Leasing Corp., a Texas corporation

WERTZ McDADE WALLACE MOOT & BROWER By: _________________________________ John H. Stephens (Cal. Bar No. 82971) 945 Fourth Avenue San Diego, California 92101 Tel: (619) 233-1888 Counsel for Defendant FOX RENT A CAR D/B/A PAYLESS RENTA-CAR

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2 I hereby attest that I have authorization for any signatures indicat 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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/ ) within this efiled document. s/ Michael L. Weiner Michael L. Weiner (Pro hac vice) Attorney for Defendant Avis Budget Group, Inc. E-mail: [email protected]

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