The dispute over the 2025 wagyu shipment has now produced docket records in three separate forums. It began in Lackawanna County (C015), was removed to the Middle District of Pennsylvania (C057, one action with C015), and was dismissed there on 2026-07-13, with the claims against U.S. Customs and Border Protection dismissed with prejudice. An appeal was docketed at the Third Circuit on 2026-07-23. On 2026-09-01, while that appeal was pending, a new action naming All-Ways Forwarding was filed in the Eastern District of New York. What is source-backed is the sequence and the shared defendant, not the content of the new complaint, which is not obtainable through any free source. Strength is therefore Moderate rather than Strong: the published rubric reserves Strong for a judicial characterisation, or for a prior adverse termination together with matching claims and defendants, and the claim comparison cannot be made here. This is a research classification, not a judicial finding, and it is not a vexatious-litigant determination.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Tufano v. All-Ways Forwarding et al
1:26-cv-05474 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
About this case
Not summarized: The complaint in this case could not be obtained from a free public source, so this page does not describe what it alleges. What follows records why the summary is missing, not what was filed.
The docket itself is source-backed: it shows the complaint filed on September 1, 2026, the filing fee received, a notice of deficient filing, and a notice of opportunity to consent to magistrate jurisdiction. What it does not show is what the complaint alleges, and this project does not infer allegations from a caption.
Sourcing limitation (6 Sep 2026): the RECAP archive marks every entry on this docket unavailable, the Internet Archive holds no item for it, and GovInfo has no package for the case. A summary will be added here if the pleading later becomes available. Until then this case is also coded as an unclear rather than a confirmed repeat filing, for the same reason — its claims cannot be compared with those of the earlier action over the same dispute.
Defendants
Source record
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Outcome and research status
Research status: Source-backed complete docket-entry list (CourtListener/RECAP, read 2026-10-11); no document on this docket is obtainable, so the complaint was not read. An earlier record of a second entry on Sept. 24, 2026 titled Memorandum and Opinion was not supported by the complete entry list, which carries one entry on that date and no document of that title, and has been withdrawn.
Research notes: Found on 2026-09-06 by a nationwide CourtListener party sweep; it is the first case in this tracker from the Eastern District of New York. The docket carries four entries, all entered 2026-09-04: the complaint, receipt of the filing fee, a notice of deficient filing, and a notice of opportunity to consent to magistrate jurisdiction. Robert M. Levy is the assigned magistrate judge. Because the fee was received, this action is not proceeding in forma pauperis, unlike the Third Circuit appeal in the same dispute. Nothing on the docket identifies whether counsel has appeared, so pro se status is left blank rather than assumed. The named defendant, All-Ways Forwarding, is the same canonical party as in C015 and C057, and the filing date falls 50 days after the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed C057 and 40 days after the appeal from that dismissal was docketed at the Third Circuit as No. 26-2838. No document on this docket is free in RECAP, archive.org holds no item for gov.uscourts.nyed.550901, and GovInfo has no package for it, so the complaint could not be read and no claims summary is recorded. Update 2026-09-15: the party list was incomplete. The caption is “Tufano v. All-Ways Forwarding et al” and the docket names six defendants: All-Ways Forwarding, Weber Solomon, US Customs and Border Protection, Eva Airways, Worldwide Flight Services and SPQR Imports. The five that were missing have been added; only SPQR Imports is new to the dataset, the rest reuse canonical ids established by the Lackawanna and M.D. Pa. All-Ways actions. Presiding judge Robert M. Levy; nature of suit Other Statutory Actions; cause of action 28 U.S.C. 1331 federal question. Note what this says about the earlier read: the 2026-09-06 pass recovered the full docket-entry list from CourtListener/RECAP and still did not get the party block, because RECAP carries entries and parties separately and had only the former. Party list read 2026-09-15 from the Justia docket record (https://dockets.justia.com/docket/new-york/nyedce/1:2026cv05474/550901). Update 2026-10-03: Two entries dated Sept. 24, 2026 appear on the docket — a notice and a document titled "Memorandum & Opinion." Both are recorded by title only: neither is held in the free document store, no copy exists in the Internet Archive mirror, and the one free docket summary that covers this case was retrieved Sept. 4, 2026, before they were entered. The docket carries no termination date. What that opinion decides is therefore unknown, and no disposition should be read into its existence.
Related litigation
- Previous related case: 3:25-cv-01558 — Tufano v. All-Ways Forwarding et al
- Dispute group: All-Ways / wagyu shipment
Filing-restriction indicators
Strength labels are research classifications, not judicial declarations that the litigant is vexatious.
Chronology events
Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
A new action naming All-Ways Forwarding was filed in the Eastern District of New York as 1:26-cv-05474, 50 days after the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed the same dispute and while the appeal from that dismissal was pending.
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Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. All-Ways Forwarding et al (1:26-cv-05474)". Research last verified October 11, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/1-26-cv-05474-tufano-v-all-ways-forwarding-et-al/