Jonathan M. Korn

BLANK ROME LLP

301 Carnegie Center, 3rd Floor

Princeton, NJ 08540

(609) 750-7700

Korn@BlankRome.com 

James N. Benedict (pro hac vice)

Sean M. Murphy (pro hac vice)

Robert C. Hora (pro hac vice)

Andrea G. Hood (pro hac vice)

MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & McCLOY LLP

1 Chase Manhattan Plaza

New York, NY 10005

(212) 530-5000 

Attorneys for Defendants

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and 

AXA Equitable Funds Management Group, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY

MARY ANN SIVOLELLA, for the use and benefit of 

the EQ/Common Stock Index Portfolio, the EQ/Equity 

Growth PLUS Portfolio, the EQ/Equity 500 Index 

Portfolio, the EQ/Large Cap Value PLUS Portfolio,

the EQ/Global Multi-Sector Equity Portfolio, the 

EQ/Mid Cap Value PLUS Portfolio, the EQ/GAMCO 

Small Company Value, and the EQ/Intermediate 

Government Bond Index Portfolio,

Plaintiff,

vs.

AXA EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

and AXA EQUITABLE FUNDS MANAGEMENT 

GROUP, LLC,

Defendants.

Civil Action No. 3:11-cv-04194 (PGS)

and

Civil Action No. 3:13-cv-00312 (PGS)

GLENN D. SANFORD, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

AXA EQUITABLE FUNDS MANAGEMENT 

GROUP, LLC

Defendant.

NOTICE OF MOTION 

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED

FILED ELECTRONICALLY

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TO: Robert L. Lakind, Esq.

SZAFERMAN, LAKIND, BLUMSTEIN & BLADER PC

101 Grovers Mill Road, Suite 200

Lawrenceville, NJ 08640

Moshe Maimon, Esq.

LEVY, PHILLIPS & KONIGSBERG, LLP

800 Third Avenue, 13th Floor

New York, NY 10022

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on April 20, 2015, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as 

counsel may be heard, Defendants AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and AXA Equitable 

Funds Management Group, LLC will move before the United States District Court for the 

District of New Jersey, Clarkson S. Fisher Building & U.S. Courthouse, 402 East State Street, 

Trenton, NJ 08608 for an Order pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56.1, granting 

Summary Judgment in their favor, and against the Plaintiffs, and dismissing Plaintiffs’ 

Complaints with prejudice, on the ground that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact 

and that Defendants are entitled to judgment as a matter of law.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that in support of this Motion, Defendants will

rely upon the attached Memorandum of Law, as well as the Statement of Material Facts Not in 

Dispute, and the Declaration of Andrea G. Hood filed concurrently herewith. A proposed form

of Order is also submitted with this Motion.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that oral argument is requested in the event the 

Motion is opposed.

Dated: January 23, 2015

BLANK ROME LLP

By: /s/ Jonathan M. Korn

Jonathan M. Korn

301 Carnegie Center, 3rd Floor

Princeton, NJ 08540

(609) 750-7700

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MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & McCLOY LLP

James N. Benedict (pro hac vice)

Sean M. Murphy (pro hac vice)

Robert C. Hora (pro hac vice)

Andrea G. Hood (pro hac vice)

1 Chase Manhattan Plaza

New York, NY 10005

(212) 530-5000

Attorneys for Defendants 

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and 

AXA Equitable Funds Management Group, LLC

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