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2026-00325 · 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.
Plaintiff alleges that Reddit and TikTok have run a sustained harassment campaign against his social-media presence by repeatedly banning his accounts and allowing his users to harass him without consequence, crippling the income he says depends on his social-media reach; he alleges he used TikTok to promote his health/nutrition research and retail meat business, and believes an organized group of Reddit users is coordinating to report and target his accounts.
He cites already-tracked case 2025-06513 (Tufano v. Reddit) as further documenting the same conduct. Defendants Lavely & Singer PC (a law firm) and Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban/Mehryar Taban MD Inc. are named in the complaint's caption but are not discussed in its factual allegations.
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Research status: Verified via direct LPA portal lookup
Research notes: Direct LPA portal lookup (2026-08-20): no docket activity since the original filing (1/22/2026); no ruling on the requested emergency restraining order or the sanctions motion. Verified Complaint read (Reddit/TikTok account-ban harassment allegations; references companion case 2025-06513; Lavely & Singer PC and Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban named as defendants but not discussed in the complaint's narrative).
Strength labels are research classifications, not judicial declarations that the litigant is vexatious.
C029 (filed 2026-01-22) names Reddit, Inc. -- the same core defendant as C020/C056 -- plus ByteDance/TikTok and Taban-related defendants, roughly 5 months after C020/C056. C029's own Verified Complaint expressly references companion case 2025-06513 (C020).
Source — ic-access.com ↗Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
Tufano filed C029 in Lackawanna County against Reddit, Inc., ByteDance/TikTok, Lavely & Singer PC, and Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban, roughly 5 months after C020/C056. C029's own Verified Complaint references companion case 2025-06513 (C020). No docket activity has occurred since the original filing.
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And because of this extreme, targeted and slanderous harassment against my personal being and my business, I'll be filing several additional lawsuits this week, as well as going to the police and filing several reports against these people.
An explicit first-person announcement of several additional lawsuits to be filed that week, plus police reports, with harassment and account takedowns given as the trigger. The word additional presents them as further actions on top of litigation already under way.
Why this classification: Moderate because the conduct it describes is a filing not yet made and the targets are described only as these people, so no core filing factor is engaged. Its weight comes from the video being published the day before a tracked case was docketed naming the party groups it mentions.
Watch at 00:08 — youtube.com ↗And if you think that Reddit or Tik Tok or any of these platforms are going to protect your personal information when they're in front of a jury for millions of dollars, I promise you they won't.
Names Reddit and TikTok, both tracked defendants, and describes the mechanism he expects to use against anonymous critics, compelling the platforms to give up users' personal information in front of a jury. It is addressed to viewers as a warning.
Why this classification: Moderate because it describes a proceeding still to come rather than one already filed and names no court, docket or case. Its weight comes from naming two tracked defendants the day before a case naming both was filed.
Watch at 00:31 — youtube.com ↗So, we'll probably have to handle all the civil filings myself, and we'll see if the police help us on the criminal
Announces civil filings not yet made, in the plural, over a Reddit-based grievance, and says he expects to bring them himself because lawyers decline the work. The video was published the day before a tracked Reddit case was filed.
Why this classification: Moderate because the statement announces a filing rather than reporting one, and he names no court, case or defendant beyond the platform. The one-day gap to a matching docketed filing is what makes it load-bearing.
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Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Reddit Inc (2026-00325)". Research last verified September 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/2026-00325-tufano-v-reddit-inc/