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 APPEAL OF 

MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S 

ORDER PRECLUDING

CERTAIN OF DEFENDANTS’ 

TRIAL EXHIBITS

FILED ELECTRONICALLY

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)

James G. Cavoli (pro hac vice)

Robert C. Hora (pro hac vice)

MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & McCLOY LLP

28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005

(212) 530-5000 

Attorneys for Defendants

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on February 16, 2016 at 9:00 am, or as soon 

thereafter as counsel may be heard, the undersigned counsel for Defendants will, 

and hereby do, bring an appeal before Hon. Peter G. Sheridan at the Clarkson S. 

Fisher Building & U.S. Courthouse, 402 East State Street, Trenton, New Jersey 

08608, from the Memorandum Order of Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Arpert, dated 

January 5, 2016, insofar as that order precluded Defendants from relying on at trial 

certain publicly available documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange 

Commission. Memorandum Order, dated Jan. 5, 2016 (Sivolella ECF No. 207, 

Sanford ECF No. 154) (“Order”).1

 This appeal is based upon Defendants’ 

Memorandum In Support of Appeal, dated January 19, 2016 and filed 

contemporaneously herewith, the Declaration of Andrea G. Hood (and the Exhibits 

attached thereto), dated January 19, 2016 and filed contemporaneously herewith, 

the record in this case, and such other matters upon which the Court may choose to 

rely. Oral argument is requested.

1 Defendants objected on the record on January 6, 2015 to the entirety of 

Magistrate Judge Arpert’s Order. Defendants expressly reserve their right to 

object at trial to any of the other holdings in the Order.

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Dated: January 19, 2016

BLANK ROME LLP

By: /s/ Jonathan M. Korn 

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)

James G. Cavoli (pro hac vice)

Robert C. Hora (pro hac vice)

MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & McCLOY 

LLP

28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005

(212) 530-5000 

Attorneys for Defendants

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