John E. Harvey v. Torrent Leasing Inc. and U.S. Bank, N.A.

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: October 9, 2025
• Docket: 2:25-cv-00824
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 3 Case No.: 2:25-cv-00824-JAD-DJA John E. Harvey, 4 Plaintiff Order Denying Plaintiff’s Motion for 5 v. Judicial Notice

6 Torrent Leasing Inc. and U.S. Bank, N.A., [ECF Nos. 38, 40]

7 Defendants

9 Pro se plaintiff John E. Harvey brings this action to stop Torrent Leasing Inc. and U.S. 10 Bank, N.A. from garnishing funds held in his Nevada-based bank account to satisfy a judgment 11 entered against him in an Illinois state court. U.S. Bank has filed a motion to dismiss, which 12 remains pending in this court’s long queue of dispositive motions,1 along with a motion to stay.2 13 In the meantime, Harvey has filed a “Motion for Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts 14 Establishing Systematic Judicial Favoritism and Coordinated Constitutional Conspiracy,” 3 15 along with a supplement and errata to that motion and a separate motion to file another 16 supplemental brief in support of it.4 17 “Judicial notice” does not mean what Harvey thinks it means. “Judicial notice” is a legal 18 term of art, and it does not mean that a litigant just wants the court to accept as “fact” his version 19 of disputed events and theories. Federal Rule of Evidence 201 permits the court to take judicial 20 notice of an adjudicative fact that is “not subject to reasonable dispute” because it is either 21 1 ECF No. 23. 22 2 ECF No. 17. 23 3 ECF No. 38. 4 ECF Nos. 39, 40, 41. 1 “generally known within the trial court’s territorial jurisdiction” or “can be accurately and 2 readily determined from sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.”5 For 3 example, a party could ask the court to take judicial notice that Christmas Day in 2019 fell on a 4 Wednesday.

5 Harvey has offered nothing that this court can properly take judicial notice of under the 6 Rules of Evidence. As the “introduction” to his motion explains, he wants this court to consider 7 “irrefutable mathematical proof of systematic judicial corruption that U.S. Bank deliberately 8 exploited to conceal illegal conduct and eliminate constitutional challenges, a coordinated 9 conspiracy that violates due process, equal protection, and federal civil rights laws with 10 mathematical impossibility probability of occurring by chance.”6 Some of the specific “facts” 11 that he wants the court to take judicial notice of include: 12 • “FACT 13: Michael B. Wixom of Smith Larsen & Wixom is a Harper Selim shadow attorney, establishing the coordinated network of attorneys operating through systematic 13 judicial favoritism while maintaining plausible deniability through selective concealment.”7 14 • “FACT 17: Court records show Harper Selim shadow attorneys systematically avoided 15 official court appearances in multiple cases, keeping their involvement off official docket records while maintaining strategic control over proceedings through concealed influence 16 operations. . . .”8

17 • “FACT 27: U.S. Bank has maintained ‘deafening silence’ regarding the systemic favoritism evidence, refusing to address documented federal court fraud or respond to 18 settlement demands—conduct constituting admission under FRCP 8(b)(6).”9 19 20

21 5 Fed. R. Evid. 201(b)(1), (2); accord U.S. v. Chapel, 41 F.3d 1338, 1342 (9th Cir. 1994). 6 ECF No. 38 at 1. 22 7 Id. at 8. 23 8 Id. 9 Id. at 10. 1} This is not a proper use of judicial notice, so the motion to take judicial notice and to file a 2|| supplement in support of it are both denied. Harvey is cautioned not to utilize a motion for judicial notice to make arguments to the court. 4 Harvey is also cautioned that litigants may not file supplemental briefs without prior leave of court. This court’s local rules authorize the filing of only one motion, one response, and one reply brief on a single issue; they do not authorize the filing of supplements.'° So a litigant 7|| must get permission from the court—“leave of court”—before a supplement can be filed. Local Rule 7-2(g) expressly states that “A party may not file supplemental pleadings, briefs, authorities, or evidence without leave of court granted for good cause. The judge may strike 10|| supplemental filings made without leave of court.”!! This includes “notices” that advise the 11]| court of, or clarify, something related to a pending motion. Such supplementation is rarely appropriate or allowed because it prolongs the briefing process indefinitely and usurps the 13]| court’s limited resources. So this court will not consider supplemental materials that were filed in this case without leave of court, and future supplements filed without leave of court will be 15]| struck from the docket without prior warning. 16 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the motion for judicial notice and the motion to 17|| supplement that motion [ECF Nos. 38, 40] are DENIED.

USS. District Judge Jen A. Dorsey 19 October 9, 2025 20 21 22 See LR. 7-2. NLR. 7-2(g).