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2025-09403 · Lackawanna County
Evidentiary treatment: This summarizes the plaintiff's own allegations as stated in the complaint or docket record cited below. It reflects what was filed, not a court finding, and is not a determination that the allegations are true.
Mohawk Global Logistics, a freight forwarder based in Syracuse, New York, sued Free Range Meat LLC to recover $17,428.19 in unpaid shipping charges. Count I pleads breach of contract: that at the company's request Mohawk rendered logistics services at the prices set out in written invoices, that the company received and accepted those services without rejecting them or disputing their quality, and that after all credits $16,332.78 of principal remained unpaid, plus $1,095.41 of statutory interest at 6% per annum accruing from 14 November 2025. Count II pleads unjust enrichment in the alternative. The claim is the mirror image of C033, in which Tufano sues Mohawk three months later alleging that it inflated its China-to-US shipping rates.
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Outcome reason: Mohawk Global Logistics sued Free Range Meat LLC for $17,428.19 in unpaid freight-forwarding charges on 2025-11-20. Tufano, appearing pro se for the company, filed a Motion to Dismiss and a Motion to Vacate Default Judgment, both dated 2025-12-29; the latter reached the docket on 2026-01-08. The Clerk of Judicial Records entered judgment by default for $17,571.61 the following day, 2026-01-09, with Rule 236 notice given 2026-01-13 - no judge was ever assigned, and the docket shows no ruling on either motion. Mohawk then executed on the judgment: a Praecipe for Writ of Execution for $18,554.70 issued 2026-03-17, the writ was served on Fidelity Bank as garnishee and returned 2026-03-24, the garnishee answered interrogatories on 2026-03-31, and Mohawk discontinued against the garnishee on 2026-04-16. The case itself remains open with no coded disposition.
Research status: Source-backed (direct LPA portal docket, case detail, complaint and party motion read)
Research notes: Found on 2026-08-30 by searching the Lackawanna General Index for the litigant Free Range Meat LLC rather than for Frank Tufano. The case had never been tracked, and it precedes C033 (Tufano v. Mohawk Global Logistics, filed 2026-02-23) by three months: Mohawk sued first, and its default judgment against the company was entered six weeks before Tufano filed his own action over the same billing dispute.
Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
Mohawk Global Logistics filed C104 in Lackawanna County against Free Range Meat LLC, seeking $17,428.19 in unpaid freight-forwarding charges on breach-of-contract and unjust-enrichment counts.
Source — ic-access.com ↗Tufano, pro se for the company, dated both a Motion to Dismiss and a Motion to Vacate Default Judgment. The motion to vacate reached the docket on 2026-01-08, one day before any default judgment was entered.
Source — ic-access.com ↗The Clerk of Judicial Records entered judgment by default for $17,571.61 against Free Range Meat LLC, with Rule 236 notice given 2026-01-13.
Source — ic-access.com ↗Six weeks after the default judgment against his company, Tufano filed C033 against Mohawk Global Logistics in the same court, alleging it inflated its China-to-US shipping rates.
Source — ic-access.com ↗Mohawk filed a Praecipe for Writ of Execution for $18,554.70 while C033 was pending.
Source — ic-access.com ↗The writ was returned with monies, credit, goods and chattels attached as commanded, having been served on Fidelity Bank as garnishee together with interrogatories. The garnishee answered on 2026-03-31.
Source — ic-access.com ↗Mohawk filed a Discontinuance against the garnishee. The case itself remains open with no coded disposition.
Source — ic-access.com ↗Indexed DocketBird material is classified by record type and verification status. Party filings, tentative rulings and unresolved sanctions leads are not treated as court findings.
Judgment by default for $17,571.61 entered against Free Range Meat LLC, with Rule 236 notice provided 13 January 2026.
Evidentiary treatment: Entered by the Clerk of Judicial Records on the plaintiff's praecipe; no judge was assigned to the case. Not a judicial ruling and therefore not recorded as a court finding.
Verification: Source-backed (docket entry and case detail)
DocketBird — ic-access.com ↗Filed pro se by Frank Tufano and dated 29 December 2025 - the same day as his docketed Motion to Dismiss - reading in full: 'Frank Tufano files this motion to vacate the default judgement as he has filed a response to the initial complaint.' It reached the docket on 8 January 2026, one day before the clerk entered the default judgment it anticipates.
Evidentiary treatment: Party motion only; no ruling appears on the docket. The apparent out-of-order sequence on the docket is a filing-lag artefact, not a motion against an already-entered judgment.
Verification: Source-backed (document read)
DocketBird — ic-access.com ↗Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Mohawk Global Logistics v. Free Range Meat LLC (2025-09403)". Research last verified September 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/2025-09403-mohawk-global-logistics-v-free-range-meat-llc/