PAYMENT CARD INTERCHANGE FEE & MERCHANT DISCOUNT

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Class Plaintiffs.

>Arnold & Porter LLP, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Visa U.S.A. Inc.

Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Bank of America.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Capital One Bank (USA).

Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant Citibank, N.A.

Kutak Rock LLP, Omaha, NE, for Defendant First National Bank of Omaha.

Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Defendant National City Corporation.

Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant SunTrust Banks, Inc.

Friedman Law Group LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs in No. 05-cv-5074.

Constantine Cannon LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff NATSO, Inc.

Vorys, Safer, Seymour and Pease LLP, Columbus, OH, for Objector Target Corporation.

Schlam, Stone & Dolan, LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae U.S. Public Research Interest Group.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, NY, for Objector American Express Co.

Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Washington, DC, for Objector Blue Cross Blue Shield Entities.

Law Offices of Edward F. Siegel, Denver, CO, for Objector Vicente Consulting LLC.

Joshua R. Furman Law Corp., Sherman Oaks, CA, for Objector Jon M. Zimmerman.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Columbus, OH, for Objector State of Ohio.

Kenny Nachwalter, P.A., Miami, FL, Sperling & Slater, Chicago, IL, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Harrisburg, PA, for the Individual Plaintiffs.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant MasterCard International Incorporated.

Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Barclays Bank.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, Cincinnati, OH, for Defendant Fifth Third Bancorp.

Wilmerhale, New York, NY, for Defendant HSBC Finance Corporation.

Pullman & Comley, LLC, Bridgeport, CT, for Defendant Texas Independent Bancshares, Inc.

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Wachovia Bank, NA.

Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander Goldberg & Cline, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiffs in No. 05-cv-5075.

Quinn Emanuel, New York, NY, for Objector Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.

Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, New York, NY, for Objector National Retail Federation.

Perkins Coie LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Objector First Data Corporation.

Kirkland & Ellis, New York, NY, for Objector Discover Financial Services.

The Law Offices of John J. Pentz, Sudbury, MA, for Defendant Daviss Donuts and Deli.

Thrash Law Firm, P.A., Little Rock, AR, for R & M Objectors.

State of California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Objector State of California.

A.  Preliminary Statement .........................................................214
    1.  Structure of a Credit Card Transaction; Interchange Fees ..................214
    2.  The Default Interchange Rule; Honor-all-Cards Rules; Anti-Steering
         Rules ....................................................................214
    3.  The Course of the Litigation...

                    
                    
                    

                        

                            

                                

                            
                            

                                

                                    

                                        

                                        

                                        

                                    
                                
                                

                                    
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