Free Declaration in Support - District Court of California - California

Case 3:07-cv-05110-WHA

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Elwood Lui (SBN 45538) [email protected] Thomas A. Rector (SBN 199175) [email protected] JONES DAY 555 California Street, 26th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 626-3939 Facsimile: (415) 875-5700 Hugh Whiting [email protected] (pro hac vice application to be filed) JONES DAY 717 Texas, Suite 3300 Houston, TX 77002 Telephone: (832) 239-3939 Facsimile: (832) 239-3600 Thomas E. Fennell [email protected] (pro hac vice application to be filed) Michael L. Rice [email protected] (admitted pro hac vice) JONES DAY 2727 N. Harwood St. Dallas, TX 75201 Telephone: (214) 220-3939 Facsimile: (214) 969-5100 Attorneys for Defendants MATTEL, INC. AND FISHER-PRICE, INC. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA AMY HARRINGTON, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. MATTEL, INC. a Delaware Corp., and FISHER-PRICE INC. a Delaware Corp., and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive, Defendants.

Case No. 07-05110 (MJJ) SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF THOMAS A. RECTOR REGARDING DECEMBER 18, 2007 MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION TRANSFER ORDER

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I, Thomas A. Rector, declare: 1. I am counsel for defendants Mattel, Inc. and Fisher-Price Inc. The facts set forth

herein are known to me personally. 2. Attached hereto as Exhibit 1 is defendants' Notice of Potential Tag-Along Actions

filed with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on October 9, 2007. 3. Attached hereto as Exhibit 2 is a December 18, 2007 Transfer Order from the

Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, transferring class actions filed following defendants' voluntary toy recalls to the Central District of California for coordinated pretrial proceedings. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on December 19, 2007 in San Francisco, California. By: /s/ Thomas A. Rector Thomas A. Rector

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