Nevada · federal district court · 2025

Kelly v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

District Court, D. Nevada, 31 October 2025 to 17 December 2025. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from 2 documents on file.

Case record · D. Nev.

  1. Court. District Court, D. NevadaCOURT
  2. Level. federal district courtLEVEL
  3. Dates. 31 October 2025 to 17 December 2025DATED
  4. Docket. No. 2:25-cv-01195DOCKET
  5. Judge. Andrew Patrick GordonJUDGE
  6. Documents. 2 documents, 8 passages quoted belowON FILE
  7. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Docket entry 62, 17 December 2025 · source · PDF · 17 pages

Docket text. REPLY to Response to 47 Motion to Dismiss by Defendant Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. (George, Elias) (Entered: 12/17/2025)

3 DMS_US.374983026.2 Fifth, the SAC is a shotgun pleading that is not rectified by Kelly’s filing of an improper Request for Judicial Notice. Finally, the Opposition contains several nonexistent case citations and quotes that do not appear in the caselaw and may have been created by artificial intelligence (“AI”) hallucinations. To avoid the unnecessary time and expense to FINRA in opposing AI hallucinated authority, and to conserve judicial resources, FINRA requests that the Court admonish Kelly from making future misrepresentations of legal authority.

2007). While Kelly lists the 2007 Weissman decision in his Table of Authorities, it is the 2006 Weissman decision he cites in his brief, including to hallucinated quotes that do not appear anywhere in either case. Opp. pp.

See Opp. p. 10 (attributing a non-existent quote to City of Providence v. BATS Glob.

Ct. 2751 (2025), which does not address regulatory immunity and is inapposite to the issues in this case); id. at 2, 13 (attributing a non-existent quote to DL Capital Group, 409 F.3d at 99, and citing the case for 6 DMS_US.374983026.2 propositions that are not presented in this case). Some of these additional cases also support FINRA’s assertion of regulatory immunity.

Docket entry 43, 31 October 2025 · source · PDF · 6 pages

Docket text. RESPONSE to 41 Motion, by Defendant Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Replies due by 11/7/2025. (George, Elias) (Entered: 10/31/2025)

Citing to what may be an Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) hallucination, Kelly erroneously contends that the local rules require an attorney to file a petition and to associate with local counsel within 45 days of the attorney’s first appearance in civil cases.1 Mot. at 4.

Sept. 26, 2025) (“The Court may sanction [pro se] plaintiff if plaintiff cites nonexistent or misleading caselaw in the future, whether or not generated or hallucinated by AI.”); Saxena v. Martinez-Hernandez, No.

Apr. 23, 2005) (plaintiff’s pro se status was “no excuse for submitting non-existent authority to the court in support of a brief”); Sims v. Souily-Lefave, No.

As a result, the Motion should be denied in its entirety. Further, FINRA respectfully requests that the Court admonish Kelly against: (i) filing any further vexatious and frivolous motions, and (ii) making future filings with the Court that include nonexistent citations or misrepresentations of legal authorities upon which he relies. Dated: October 31, 2025 EPG LAW GROUP Elias George, NV Bar No.

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