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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTEASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

IN RE Master File 06-MD-1775 (BMC) (VVP)

AIR CARGO SHIPPING SERVICES ALL CASESANTITRUST LITIGATION

MDL No. 1775

DECLARATION OF J. WESLEY EARNHARDT REGARDING NOTICE OFPROPOSED SETTLEMENT PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1715

I, J. Wesley Earnhardt, declare and state as follows:

I am a member of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, attorneys for Polar Air

Cargo LLC (formerly known as Polar Air Cargo, Inc.), Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc.,

and Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., (the “Polar Defendants”) in this action.

1. I submit this declaration upon personal knowledge to certify that the Polar

Defendants provided notice to the appropriate federal and state officials in compliance

with 28 U.S.C. § 1715.

2. On January 8, 2016, Plaintiffs filed their motion for Preliminary Approval

of Settlement with the Polar Defendants. (ECF No. 2401.)

3. Also on January 8, 2016, the Court signed an order preliminarily

approving the proposed class action settlement; the Court then filed the order on

January 12, 2016. (ECF No. 2402.)

4. On January 15, 2016, I caused to be mailed to each appropriate Federal

and State official, a notice of the proposed settlement in this action, in accordance with

28 U.S.C. § 1715. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of that notice.

Case 1:06-md-01775-BMC-VVP Document 2474-7 Filed 08/19/16 of 13 PageID #: 112494

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on August t)i, 2016, at New York, New York.

J Wesley Earnhardt

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EXHIBIT A


CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP

JOHN W. WHITE

EVAN R. CHESLER

KRIS F. HEINZELMAN

ROGER 0. TURNER

PHILIP A. GELSTON

RICHARD W. CLARY

JAMES 0. COOPER

STEPHEN C. GORDON

DANIEL C. MOSLEY

ROBERT H. BARON

KEVIN J. GREHAN

C. ALLEN PARKER

SUSAN WEBSTER

DAVIO MERCADO

ROWAN 0. WILSON

CHRISTINE A. VARNEY

PETERT. BARBUR

SANDRA C. GOLDSTEIN

THOMAS G. RAFFERTY

MICHAEL S. GOLDMAN

RICHARD HALL

JULIE A, NORTH

ANDREWW. NEEDHAM

STEPHEN L. BURNS

KEITH R. HUMMEL

DAVID J. KAPPO5

DANIEL SLIFKIN

ROBERT I. TOWNSEND, III

WILLIAM J. WHELAN, III

SCOTT A. BARSHAY

PHILIP J. BOECKNAN

ROGER G. BROOKS

WILLIAM V. FOGG

FAIZA J. SAEED

RICHARD J. STARK

THOMAS E. DUNN

MARK I. GREENE

DAVID S. MARRIOTT

MICHAEL A. PASKIN

ANDREW 1. PITTS

MICHAEL T. REYNOLDS

ANTONY L. RYAN

GEORGE K. ZDBITZ

GEORGE A. STEPHANAKIS

DARIN P. MCATEE

GARY A. BORNSTEIN

TIMOTHY G. CAMERON

KARIN A DEMASI

LIZABETHANN R. EISEN

DAVID 5. FINKELSTEIN

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WRITER’S DIRECT DIAL NUMBER

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DAVID GREENWALD

RACHEL G. SKAISTIS

PAUL H. ZUMBRO

JOEL F. HEROLD

ERICW. HILFERS

GEORGE F. SCHOEN

ERIK R. TAVZEL

CRAIG F. ARCELLA

TEENA-ANN V. SAN KOORIKAL

ANDREW R. THOMPSON

DAMIEN R.ZOUBEK

LAUREN ANGELILLI

TATIANA LAPUSHCHIK

ERIC L. SCHIELE

ALYSSA K. CAPLES

JENNIFER S. CONWAY

MINH VAN NGO

KEVIN J. ORSINI

MATTHEW MORREALE

JOHN D. BURETTA

J. WESLEY EARNHARDT

YONATAN EVEN

BENJAMIN GRUENSTEIN

JOSEPH 0. ZAVAGLIA

STEPHEN U. KESSING

LAUREN A. MOSKOWITZ

DAVIDJ. PERKINS

JOHNNY 0. SKUMPIJA

J. LEONARD TETI, II

0. SCOTT BENNETT

TING S. CHEN

CHRISTOPHER K. FARGO

KENNETH C. HALCOM

DAVID M. STUART

JONATHAN L. DAVIS

AARON M. GRUBER

0. KEITH HALLAM, III

OMID H. NASAB

DAMARIS HERNANDEZ

JONATHAN J. KATZ

SPECIAL COUNSEL

SAMUEL C. BUTLER

GEORGE J. GILLESPIE, III

OF COUNSEL

MICHAEL L. SCHLER

In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust LitigationNo. 1:06-MD-1775 (JG) (VVP) (E.D.N.Y.)

January 15, 2016

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I write on behalf of Polar Air Cargo LLC (formerly known as Polar AirCargo, Inc.), Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc., and Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc.(collectively, “Polar”), defendants in the above-captioned litigation (the “Action”), toprovide notice, pursuant to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 2$ U.S.C. § 1711 etseq., of a proposed class action settlement in the Action, currently pending in the U.S.District Court for the Eastern District of New York (the “Court”).

A motion for preliminary approval of the proposed settlement was filedwith the Court on January 8, 2016. The Court granted preliminary approval on January 8,2016. As of the date of this letter, the Court has not scheduled a hearing on the proposedsettlement.

In compliance with 28 U.S.C. § 17 15(b), please find enclosed a CD containingcopies of the following documents:

1. First Consolidated Amended Complaint, filed February 8, 2007, which is theoperative complaint in the Action.

2. The following complaints listed below, which were filed in or transferred to theCourt for consolidation and/or coordination with the above-captioned multidistrictlitigation:

a. Complaint, Benchmark Export Services et al. v. China Airlines Ltd., CaseNo. 10-CV-0639-JG-VVP (E.D.N.Y.);


b. Complaint, Benchmark Export Services eta!. v. McCaffrev, Case No. 10-CV-10253-NMG (D. Mass.);

c. Complaint, Benchmark Export Services eta!. v. Dc Jong, Case No. 2: 10-CV-00007-BO (E.D.N.C.);

d. Complaint, Benchmark Export Services et a!. v. Sanfihippo, Case No. 1:10-CV-01374-JG-VVP (E.D.N.Y.);

e. Complaint, Benchmark Export Services et al. v. Sanfilippo, Case No. 10-CV-01084-JFW-AGR (C.D. Cal.); and

f. Complaint, Bel?chmark Export Services et a!. v. AMR Corporation andAmerican Airlines, Inc., Case No. 1:1 0-CV-03398-JG-VVP (E.D.N.Y.).

3. Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Approval of Settlement with Polar, filedJanuary 8, 2016, including the following documents:

a. Plaintiffs’ Notice of Motion for Preliminary Approval of Settlement withPolar.

b. Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for PreliminaryApproval of Settlement with Polar.

c. Declaration of Michael D. Hausfeld in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion forPreliminary Approval of Settlement with Polar, with a copy of theSettlement Agreement attached as Exhibit A.

4. Escrow Agreement Among Polar, Class Counsel, and CITIBANK, N.A., asescrow agent, dated January 7, 2016.

5. Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Approval of Settlement withPolar, dated January 8, 2016.

6. Class Notice, notifying class members of the class definition and their rights torequest exclusion from the class action, dated November 6, 2015.

As referenced in Paragraph 43(c) of the Settlement Agreement, Polar andplaintiffs also entered into a confidential separate letter agreement concerning thecircumstances under which exclusion requests can give Polar the option to terminate thesettlement. This confidential agreement has not been publicly filed, and the parties haveagreed to keep it confidential. However, as noted in the Memorandum of Law in Supportof Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Approval of Settlement with Polar, the sideagreement is available to the Court upon request.

Due to the definition of the class in this case, which includes those whopurchased air cargo shipping services for shipments to or from the United States directly


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from Polar or from any other Defendant, Polar cannot provide either “the names of classmembers who reside in each State and the estimated proportionate share of the claims ofsuch members to the entire settlement”, 28 U.S.C. § 1715(b)(7)(A), or “a reasonableestimate of the number of class members residing in each State and the estimatedproportionate share of the claims of such members to the entire settlement”,2$ U.S.C. § 1715(b)(7)(B). Polar does not have a means of estimating (i) how manypeople and entities purchased air cargo shipping services from other defendants or (ii)their estimated proportionate share of the claims to the entire settlement.

Additional documents and information about the case are available byvisiting the “PACER” online docket for the above-captioned matter athttp://www.pacer.gov. The following websites also contain information about pastsettlements in the above-captioned litigation: http://aircargosettlement2.com];http://aircargosettlement3 .com]; http://www.aircargo4settlement.com!; andhttp://www. aircargosettlement5 .comlnotice.php.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require additional information.

Respectfully,

J. Wesley Earnhardt

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