In re: AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
- Jesse Furman
- 1:16-cv-00740
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In re: AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company COI Litigation: Judge Furman adopted proposed redactions and sealing and ordered docket updates.
The parties in the related AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company COI litigation actions and the documents subject to the redaction and sealing proposals.
What happened
In re: AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company COI Litigation involved the parties’ proposals to continue redacting and sealing documents in the related actions.
The court adopted the proposals, finding that the redactions were narrowly tailored to the reasons supporting sealing. It ordered the parties to correct the docket within one week if any documents needed to be unsealed or filed with different redactions.
Judge Jesse M. Furman also directed the Clerk of Court to terminate the specified docket entries in the related actions.
The detailed version
- In re: AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company · No. 1:16-cv-00740
- Jesse Furman
- Sept. 1, 2020
Background The order concerns all actions in the AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company COI litigation. The parties submitted proposals for continued redactions and sealing of documents.
Court’s analysis The court adopted the parties’ proposals. It stated that, whether or not the documents qualified as judicial documents, the proposed redactions were narrowly tailored to the reasons that justified sealing.
Ruling Judge Jesse M. Furman ordered the parties to ensure within one week that the docket matched the adopted proposals. If a document needed to be unsealed or filed with different redactions, the relevant party or parties were required to file it within that period. The Clerk of Court was directed to terminate Docket Nos. 16-CV-740, ECF Nos. 407-08 and 410; 17-CV-4767, ECF No. 339; and 18-CV-2111, ECF No. 256.
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