Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.

IM SORRY it was a joke · December 10, 2023

um so now I came to Los Angeles to to get the surgery that I was thinking about for a while like over two years now honestly I wasn't sure if I was going to go through with it so like I didn't announce it or tell you guys anything but um I guess that was like a funny way to break it to you guys

This is the first public disclosure on the channel of the index surgery behind the eye-surgery dispute, and it makes three dated factual statements that bear directly on what the cluster later pleads. (1) He came to Los Angeles specifically to get it — the city matches C101's Beverly Hills venue. (2) He had been considering it for “over two years”, which is an elective framing and is his own contemporaneous corroboration of the “June of 2022 … I thought about it for almost 2 years” account recorded from an earlier archived video; C063 pleads that Taban performed “an unnecessary orbital-decompression procedure without the required clinical indication”, and this cuts against the “unnecessary/unindicated” framing in one direction while doing nothing to answer the clinical-indication question in the other. It is recorded for that reason, not as support for either side. (3) He says he “wasn't sure if I was going to go through with it” — a statement of unsettled consent before the operation, which should not be confused with C101's pleaded lack-of-informed-consent count, a different allegation about what the surgeon disclosed. The surgeon is not named here, exactly as he is never named in that earlier video; identification with the eye-surgery dispute rests on the city, the date window and the recorded procedure list, and is circumstantial.

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$33,000 GIVEAWAY for Blind Americans · December 11, 2023

guys I don't know what the [ __ ] this doctor did to me he said I'm going to look like a freak for another few months

The earliest contemporaneous on-camera characterisation of the index eye surgery located so far in this archive — ten days post-op, and three days before the 2023-12-14 surgery vlog that stands as the eye-surgery cluster's contemporaneous record. It is a statement of dissatisfaction with the surgical result, attributed to the surgeon in the second person ("this doctor"), and it reports the surgeon's own prognosis of "another few months." This cuts against the verified record of that surgery vlog, in which he is positive about the outcome ("still looks really good," "I'm pretty sure it was the right decision," twice "I can't blame the doctor"). Both readings are recorded and neither is resolved. No surgeon is named, here or anywhere in the video's captions — identification would be by procedure and date only.

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BACK TO WORK AFTER SURGERY - Free Range Meat Vlog · December 12, 2023

what's up guys so I am back to work after a not so relaxing vacation to California getting my eyes gazed [= gouged] out but uh we're going to do a lot of videos on that surgery and everything but I mean I'm not going to wear sunglasses and stuff but like it's not healed yet it's only been like 10 days since the surgery so it looks weird I haven't cleaned it uh but that's the explanation on that

The dating anchor for the whole eye-surgery-dispute arc, and the reason this video matters beyond its content. Read together with a later remark in the same video — where he states it was filmed on Sunday — "it's only been like 10 days since the surgery" places the operation at 2023-12-10 minus 10 = 2023-11-30. That is exactly the Thursday that a weekday chain worked out in research on another video lands on, and it is not the 2023-11-29 that C101's recorded claims summary pleads (which would make it 11 days). This is a second, independent internal marker reaching the same date by a different route — an interval, not a weekday chain. It is evidence, not a resolution: "like 10 days" is approximate on its face, and both readings stand until the operative report or surgical consent form settles it. It also confirms the trip's character in his own words ("vacation to California", "getting my eyes gazed [= gouged] out") and that he intended a video series about it.

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BACK TO WORK AFTER SURGERY - Free Range Meat Vlog · December 12, 2023

able to do it because uh I have to pay the tax bill and I have to pay the um the the flood insurance and yeah guys the surgery was expensive but it's on a line of credit so I'm not I actually have to pay for it like I'm just paying like a small amount monthly often so in regards to just hemorrhaging money on the business in general might be in a tight spot yeah taxes and fun [= flood] insurance at the

The only statement in the research archive about how the surgery at the centre of the Taban dispute was paid for. Another archived video records the price quoted three different ways in one video (~$30,000, $40,000, and a self-correction the captioner flattened) and concludes no figure is settled; this passage adds the financing rather than the amount — a line of credit repaid monthly — alongside tax and flood-insurance bills and a business he says is losing money. Recorded because damages and financial harm are pleaded across the cluster and no cost figure for this surgery exists anywhere in the dataset. The middle clause is probably a dropped negation in the auto-captions and must not be quoted alone: "so I'm not I actually have to pay for it" is ungrammatical as captioned and its two halves contradict; on the surrounding sense ("it's on a line of credit … I'm just paying like a small amount monthly") the intended statement is almost certainly that he does not have to pay it all at once. The ambiguity is recorded rather than corrected.

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EYE SURGERY Full Week Vlog · December 14, 2023

uh procedure originally was like he was around 30,000 for what he wanted to do which is a a lot of procedures it's uh first is an orbital decompression where they take out some bone behind the eye to to let the eyes get more deep set and further back second is uh a rim an orbital Rim plant [= orbital rim implant] down here for the shallowness third is a lower eyelid lift a little bit called lower eyelid retraction and the fourth is the upper eyelid fosis repair [= ptosis repair]

The claims summary recorded for C101 pleads that Taban performed "a combination of four cosmetic procedures (orbital decompression, upper eyelid ptosis repair, lower eyelid retraction, and an infraorbital rim implant)". This passage, spoken on the pre-operative consultation day, lists the same four, in the same combination, and is the strongest single basis for identifying the unnamed surgeon in this video. It also gives a quoted price of about $30,000, a figure that appears nowhere else in the dataset.

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EYE SURGERY Full Week Vlog · December 14, 2023

and I can't blame the doctor doctor wasn't 100% transparent about how blind I was going to be

C101 pleads lack of informed consent as a distinct cause of action, alleging "Taban allegedly misrepresenting the risks beforehand." The morning after surgery the plaintiff makes the factual half of that allegation ("wasn't 100% transparent") and in the same sentence declines the legal conclusion ("I can't blame the doctor"). A promotion pass must carry the whole sentence — the first clause quoted alone reverses its sense.

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EYE SURGERY Full Week Vlog · December 14, 2023

I can't blame the doctor for not telling me I'm going to be blind for a week

The same declination stated a second time, seven minutes later, unprompted. Recorded separately from the [26:07] entry because a single instance could be read as a throwaway; twice in one day is a position.

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Low Carb Love CRAVES CARBS ALL DAY · December 17, 2023

and a lot of you guys are talking trash about my eye surgery calling me bogged saying I look like a 70-year-old Chinese man look in two months you guys can say that stuff for now I'm still recovering from the surgery we don't know what it's going to look like I mean the surgeon is the best guy in the world like I trust his expertise I wouldn't have gotten it done

Dates his own state one month after an eye surgery and records his contemporaneous assessment of the surgeon as favourable — "the best guy in the world," "I trust his expertise." The dataset independently records the procedure at the centre of the Taban eye-surgery dispute as a November 2023 cosmetic eye procedure (pleaded in C101 and C102, and dated on camera in another researched statement: "Since I was botched in November 2023 by Dr. Tobon…"). This statement sits about a month after that procedure and 382 days before C046 was filed (2023-12-17 to 2025-01-02, plain date difference), which makes it the earliest recorded statement in this archive about that surgery and the only one located so far in which he defends the surgeon. It describes no filing conduct of any kind, hence the factor. No party is named — he says "my eye surgery" and "the surgeon," never Taban or any practice. The case link rests on the date and the subject matter, not on a name.

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ANOTHER EYE SURGERY!? Plus Crazy Cab Story · March 22, 2024

trismus I asked those New York doctors hey have how often have you seen this after orbital decompression they said it was very rare So then after speaking to

Names the index procedure — orbital decompression — the operation at the centre of the Taban eye-surgery dispute. The term runs through the recorded claims summaries, the researched statements and the video index, so this is the tracked vocabulary and not an inference. Recorded 286 days before C046 and 290 before C101, i.e. before any action in that dispute existed. The opening word "trismus" is the tail of a caption garble of "strabismus."

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ANOTHER EYE SURGERY!? Plus Crazy Cab Story · March 22, 2024

saying there's a 3% chance now he never told me I would be cross-eyed he told me I had a chance of double vision he did not mention that I would also be cross-eyed which you know might have deterred me from getting the surgery but I'm assuming what he was

The most significant quote researched from this video. The recorded claims summary for C101 describes a professional-negligence action against Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban pled as four causes of action, the first of which is lack of informed consent; the statement record already carries the same complaint in his later words ("informed consent I was lied to about the the risks of the procedure and expect Ed results") and another researched statement recording that the double-vision-versus-strabismus distinction became a pleaded count. This quote states that exact distinction — told a risk of double vision, not told he would be cross-eyed — and adds the materiality clause a consent claim needs ("might have deterred me from getting the surgery"), 286 days before the first complaint in the Taban eye-surgery dispute was filed. Nothing here is a court finding; it is a party statement, and the earliest one the research archive holds on this theory.

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ANOTHER EYE SURGERY!? Plus Crazy Cab Story · March 22, 2024

this plastic surgery I got in uh California a few months ago was going to be the last plastic surgery I would ever get in my life and here I am waking up at 2: a.m. to get a taxi to New York to go get this the surgery so I'm I'm not happy

The only geographic identification in the whole track, and it is the one that matters — California. Mehryar Ray Taban MD practises in Beverly Hills and C101 was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Combined with the orbital-decompression statement researched from the same video and “4 months ago” at 30:39, the video independently corroborates the November-2023 index surgery that the claims summaries for C101, C102 and C071 plead, from four months after the fact. It also draws the New York/California split the later dockets inherit: the corrective work is in New York, the grievance is in California.

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POWER OUTAGE Day of Eating Vlog · April 5, 2024

it what was I going to say oh when I waited myself before my eye surgery a few weeks ago what that what did that scale say I

A datable datapoint for the Taban eye-surgery litigation in an otherwise wholly non-litigation video. "A few weeks ago" from 2024-04-05 places an eye procedure in roughly March 2024, which is consistent with a later video (2024-08-13) reporting "two corrective surgeries since November" — this would be one of them. The recorded litigation timeline has no entry of any kind for this dispute before 2025-01-03, and this quote sits 273 days before that, inside a pre-filing period the dataset does not otherwise represent at all. He names no doctor, no practice, no city and no case; every documented caption mangling of the surgeon's name (Tabon, Tibon, Tibbon, Tobon, Toban, Tobant, Tobond, Ton, Debond's, "to Bon", "to Bond's", "Dr. Don", "Dr mayor tabon") was searched and appears nowhere in the video's captions.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #1 - Violet L.A. · April 28, 2024

what's up guys Frankie eyeballs is back with the restaurant Vlogs we're in Los Angeles uh visiting cuz I just uh went to see the eye surgeon and got a few things

Places him physically in Los Angeles seeing "the eye surgeon" on a datable trip, roughly five months after the November-2023 index surgery and 249 days before C046 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011, filed 2025-01-02) and 253 days before C101 (L.A. Super. Ct. 25SMCV00041, filed 2025-01-06). C101 is a Santa Monica filing against Mehryar Ray Taban MD and his practice — a Los Angeles-area oculoplastic surgeon — so the venue of this trip and the venue of the later action coincide. The nickname "Frankie eyeballs" is his own, self-deprecating, and dates the injury as already the thing he is publicly known for. No doctor, practice, clinic or address is named anywhere in the video, and neither the surgeon's name nor any of its documented caption misspellings appears anywhere in the video's captions — so the link to the eye-surgery dispute rests on subject matter, venue and date, not on a name.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #1 - Violet L.A. · April 28, 2024

now last night um the the nurses that like took care of me during my surgery uh went out to dinner and uh I didn't like want to film that Vlog cuz I was with them and talking and trying to have some fun

The most significant quote researched from this video, and it documents the pre-litigation relationship rather than the grievance. He took the nurses who cared for him during his surgery out to dinner in Los Angeles — and, at 26:22, says he paid for that dinner for four people at more than the "$350 or $400" he once spent in New York. Nine months later he sued the surgeon in two forums. This is the Taban eye-surgery dispute at a point where the relationship with the clinical team was cordial and he was picking up the bill, which no docket can show and which the research archive does not otherwise hold. It is also an interval for which the recorded litigation timeline has no entry at all.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #1 - Violet L.A. · April 28, 2024

I'm only staying in La for 3 days I'm just trying to get the eyes fixed a little bit so I should I really I was thinking about staying for a week or two before but my eyes still weren't fixed 100% so I didn't really feel that confident

States the trip's purpose in his own words — "just trying to get the eyes fixed" — and fixes the injury's status at late April 2024: still unresolved, and by his own account bad enough to keep him from a longer stay. It sits between this research's other datapoints on the Taban eye-surgery dispute and is consistent with them: a video published 2024-08-13 reports "two corrective surgeries since November" and a still-unfixed result 3½ months later. Note an internal inconsistency in the video itself: at 4:35 he says "I'm only out here for 2 days" and here "3 days". Recorded, not reconciled.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #1 - Violet L.A. · April 28, 2024

my left eye still a little wonky though the right eye looks okay yeah it's really obvious here you see the left eye

A dated, on-camera description of the asymmetry that is the injury at the centre of the Taban eye-surgery dispute, showing it to the lens and localising it to the left eye at 2024-04-28. Another archived video (2024-08-13) describes the same left/right asymmetry and the strabismus surgeon "matching the left eye to the right eye"; this fixes the same clinical picture 107 days earlier. Recorded because the pre-filing course of the injury has no other contemporaneous source in the dataset.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #2 - Avra Beverly Hills · May 12, 2024

like can't believe this [ __ ] doctor only fixed my right eye dude so ridiculous um so we're back here in this really nice house I'm staying at for 3 days

The eye-surgery injury stated as a specific and checkable complaint — that only one of the two eyes was corrected — during the Los Angeles trip whose stated purpose, per the companion vlog ("I just uh went to see the eye surgeon", "I'm only staying in La for 3 days I'm just trying to get the eyes fixed"), was an eye-surgeon visit. The trailing clause independently attests the 3-day stay, which matters because the companion vlog contradicts itself on that point ("2 days" at one moment, "3 days" at another); this is a third, external attestation of "3". Which doctor he means is not determinable from this video, and the ambiguity is real. "Only fixed my right eye" matches the account an earlier researched video (2024-08-13) gives of the strabismus surgeon in New York — "maybe he straightened [the right eye] completely… so instead of being completely straight he had to put [the left] a little in" — while the trip he is on is a Los Angeles consultation. Two readings, and neither is picked: he may be complaining in LA about the NY surgeon, or about an LA one. He names no doctor, no practice, no clinic and no city.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #3 - Baltaire · May 26, 2024

so the when I was coming home from the surgery screaming baby in my ear on the flight horrible horrible but this was

He distinguishes "the flight back from LA the first time a few months ago" from the present trip, and identifies the first one as the flight home from the surgery. That independently corroborates the eye-surgery pleadings' placement of the November-2023 index surgery in California, and it establishes that he has now flown to Los Angeles at least twice — once for the operation, once for this trip — roughly seven months before C101 was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #3 - Baltaire · May 26, 2024

away well Frank if you didn't spend $60,000 to get your eyes gouged out you could have bought a new Skillet too you're right

The only eye-surgery-dispute content in fifty minutes, and it is a figure. It conflicts with everything already recorded and is not reconciled: earlier research has the same surgery bill at "30,000 to 38,000" (one video) and at a digit-doubled "$88,000" (its companion), and this video — four months earlier than either — says $60,000. A $60,000 figure appears three times elsewhere in the dataset and all three are false positives: two in the claims-summary record — C016's "potato chip manufacturing line for approximately $60,000" (Alibaba) and its damages figure — and one in the statement record, a house-repair job in the Meagher insurance matter. The eye-surgery $60,000 is untracked. Under this research's standing rule, numbers spoken on camera are the least reliable content the archive carries; all four figures are recorded and none is preferred.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #4 - Spago · June 9, 2024

um I don't know why maybe I look scary maybe my eyes look crooked or something that's why the girls are afraid

A datable self-description of the eye-surgery injury outside any surgery-update video — thrown away mid-sentence in a restaurant vlog, which is why it is worth capturing. The dispute's index event is pleaded in C101's recorded claims summary as a 2023-11-29 combination of cosmetic eye procedures; this is roughly six and a half months after it and 207 days before C046 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011, filed 2025-01-02), the first action in the dispute. The wording — "my eyes look crooked" — sits alongside the archive's other self-descriptions (2024-08-13: "I still look crossy… I still have double vision"), and predates that one by 65 days.

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A Not so Quick Day of Eating plus Tanning Session · June 14, 2024

instead of doing like more YouTube content I've just been physically working more and focusing more on business ideas maybe because I'm like I don't really I'm a little upset with how the eyes turned out and I don't like doing content anymore but I have to do some so so I shifted time from like the Social Media stuff to just working a little more down there

The only litigation-adjacent sentence in thirty-seven minutes, and it is worth recording because it fixes a datable point on the eye-surgery dispute's damages curve — a causal statement that the eye-surgery outcome reduced his content output — 202 days before C046 (Tufano v. Taban et al, M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011, filed 2025-01-02) and 206 days before C101 (L.A. Super. Ct. 25SMCV00041, filed 2025-01-06) opened the tracker's largest dispute cluster. It slots between two archived statements of the same claim: it is 60 days before the fuller version in a researched video of 2024-08-13 ("I haven't really been able to do YouTube or Tik Tok or YouTube shorts… I've probably posted like 40 or 50 YouTube videos since the surgery and compared to what I usually do it's like two [hundred]"), and it is the earliest dated instance of the claim now in the research archive. No filing-conduct factor is exactly right: he describes no filing, no threatened filing and no prior action — the whole significance is that the conduct is absent this far ahead of the case. No surgeon, practice, clinic, city, court, case or lawyer is named anywhere in this video — not in the transcript, not in the description, not in the title. The eye-surgery-dispute link rests only on the subject-matter match to the recorded grievance ("the eyes turned out" badly), and is tentative and unconfirmed; in particular, no caption variant of the surgeon's name appears anywhere in the video.

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Freezer is okay! Potato Chips back! Pastrami! Lemon Sorbet! Fresh Local Beef! Free Range Meat Vlog · June 24, 2024

a lot of you guys are asking for an eye update I have bad nerve pain here if that answers your question it's not going well

A datable point on the eye-surgery injury timeline, 192 days before C046 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011, filed 2025-01-02) and 196 before C101 (L.A. Super. Ct. 25SMCV00041, 2025-01-06) opened the tracker's largest cluster. It sits between two other researched videos — one of 2024-06-10 and one of 2024-08-13, the latter recording “two corrective surgeries since November” — and is the terser of the three. The recorded litigation timeline holds no entry for this dispute of any kind before 2025-01-02, so the entire pre-filing period this belongs to is unrepresented in the chronology.

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EYEBALLS UPDATE! 3rd Eye Surgery!?!? · June 28, 2024

are unfamiliar we had a cosmetic surgery back last year in November December and Visually it went well but it caused me to be incredibly crosy and I had really bad vision problems so we had one surgery to correct it in March a few months later and then we had just had this second surgery to correct the other eye uh in June so three surgeries later I mean obviously guys if I if I knew what was going to happen I I would never have gotten the surgery in the first place

Dates the eye-surgery sequence precisely from the inside — index cosmetic surgery November/December 2023, first corrective strabismus surgery March 2024 ("the week of March 21st", per 0:16), second corrective surgery 2024-06-27 (the day before publication). C101 pleads the index surgery as 2023-11-29, which this video's "November December" straddles. It is also the counting baseline: three procedures total as of 2024-06-28, rising to the "eight revision procedures" a later researched statement records by mid-2026.

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EYEBALLS UPDATE! 3rd Eye Surgery!?!? · June 28, 2024

uh we're still going to sort some things out I mean the cosmetic surgeons still has to uh correct this and we're going to see how how this whole thing pans out or whether or not I'm going to talk about that and get more into that aspect of it

An affirmative statement of an unresolved, non-escalated posture six months before the eye-surgery litigation opened. He describes the dispute as something still to be "sorted out" with the surgeon directly, and frames even talking about it publicly as an open question. No filing-conduct factor is the correct label precisely because the conduct is absent: no filing, no threatened filing, no prior action, no lawyer. This is the same shape as a 2024-08-13 statement recorded elsewhere in this research, six weeks later — two independent attestations now bracket the pre-filing posture.

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EYEBALLS UPDATE! 3rd Eye Surgery!?!? · June 28, 2024

of it um because I've never mentioned the doctor's name or anything like that uh and you know there's on one hand he told me the first time I met him I didn't need the procedure on the other hand he did misrepresent certain things about the procedure such as you know he mentioned I would have double vision he didn't say I look like a cross-eyed Freakazoid you know that's a pretty important factor um he said my eyes would not look closer together even after I've had corrective cisma surgery

This is the pleaded theory of C101, in the speaker's own words, 188 days before C046 was filed (2025-01-02) and 192 days before C101 (2025-01-06). C101's claims summary pleads that Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban performed a combination of cosmetic procedures and "allegedly misrepresent[ed] the risks beforehand and the results afterward"; the quote supplies exactly that — a specific, itemised list of two misrepresentations (double vision disclosed but not the cross-eyed appearance; eyes would not look closer together) — plus the orbital decompression procedure C046/C101 both concern. It also does something no later telling does: it states affirmatively, on 2024-06-28, that he has deliberately not named the doctor publicly, and that whether he will "get more into that aspect of it" is still undecided. That is the pre-filing decision point itself, on camera. Another researched statement records the same double-vision-versus-strabismus complaint from a later video, and a further one records that it became a pleaded fraudulent-concealment count; this quote is the earliest attestation of it in the research archive.

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Eye Surgery Update...Not good · August 13, 2024

we had a cosmetic surgery back in November of last year and you know it didn't seem like there were any negative possibilities like I was like oh worst case scenario I'll just kind of look the same but I I was misled I was not told all the possibilities and outcomes of the surgery

This is the informed-consent theory of the Taban eye-surgery dispute stated in the speaker's own words before any action in that dispute existed. C101's claims summary pleads that on November 29, 2023 Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban performed a combination of four cosmetic procedures and "allegedly misrepresent[ed] the risks beforehand and the results afterward"; the quote supplies the identical grievance — November-of-2023 cosmetic eye surgery, risks not disclosed — 142 days before C046 was filed and 146 days before C101. No doctor, practice, clinic, city, court or case is named anywhere in the video.

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Eye Surgery Update...Not good · August 13, 2024

doctors in New York I've had two corrective surgeries since November and it's still not fixed I'm I still don't look normal I still look crossy and I'm still having Vision issues I still have double vision and I still my vision literally goes blurry every second

Fixes the state of the eye-surgery injury at a datable point five months before the first filing, and gives a revision count (two corrective surgeries as of August 2024) that sits consistently between the dataset's later statements. Other researched statements record his complaint that the surgeon described the risk as "double vision" rather than strabismus, record that this became a pleaded fraudulent-concealment count, and report "eight revision procedures" by mid-2026. Two in August 2024 rising to eight by 2026 is coherent; no contradiction is created.

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Eye Surgery Update...Not good · August 13, 2024

you know I'm being very patient with these doctors I've G I've probably given them more chances than I should have and I want this to end the best for everyone and I I guess I'm going to have to give them a few more chances and try to sort things out

The load-bearing statement in this video. It is an affirmative, on-camera statement of intent not to escalate — patience, more chances, "sort things out" — made 142 days before C046 and 146 before C101 opened what is now the largest dispute cluster in the tracker (nine eye-surgery actions: C035, C046, C053, C063, C066, C071, C101, C102, plus C029's Taban defendants). It documents the state of the dispute at the pre-filing end of the chronology, which is exactly the interval a docket cannot show. No filing-conduct factor is the correct label: he describes no filing, no threatened filing and no prior action — the point of the label here is that the conduct is absent.

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BOTCHED BY DR. TABAN! Surgery Nightmare! · September 14, 2024

point and another reason is the medical malpractice uh limit is one year the the statutes so after one year in the state of California you can no longer sue for medical malpractice and we're coming up on that point haven't had much success talking to these lawyers that are defending their doctor buddy uh so I'm not sure if I'm going to have some relief it looks like I'm going to have to write this lawsuit myself and maybe we can do a class action I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to find uh 20 or 30 people through this video that have been butchered by this guy I'm sure he's butchered more than that it's just you know my reach you know I don't have access to his patient list um he did have four lawsuits against him in the in the Los Angeles County court but uh we'll talk more about that stuff later

An explicit, dated announcement of an intended pro-se filing on the Taban matter — 110 days before C046 and 114 days before C101, both of which he did file and both of which carry pro_se = Yes. It also (a) states the California one-year malpractice limitation and that it is "coming up", (b) uses the video as a recruitment channel for co-claimants ("20 or 30 people"), and (c) asserts four prior lawsuits against the doctor in Los Angeles County court — a checkable claim the tracker does not hold, since it records only Tufano's own actions. Not Strong: Threatened or prospective filing is not one of the three core factors.

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BOTCHED BY DR. TABAN! Surgery Nightmare! · September 14, 2024

and what what was really might have been what caused this in the first place he upcharged me on the procedure the day before the surgery saying I needed a double wall compression instead of a single wall compression so the bill went from like I don't know 30,000 to 38,000 and I asked him I said do you think I need it I trusted his expertise I trusted him I said okay I'll pay you for the the double decompression which is likely the specific part of the procedure that has caused all of these comp lications and the negative

The core factual grievance later pleaded in C046/C101, stated 110 days pre-filing. It also resolves an internal contradiction in WxLAeBlF7mY, which reads "upcharge me $88,000" and then "that extra 8,000" eight seconds later: the figure is $8,000, on a bill of $30,000 → $38,000. Do not merge this with §W4.8's $41,286.36 / "over $30,000" / "over $50,000" — those are the May-2025 orbital reconstruction (C024, United Healthcare), a different procedure.

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BOTCHED BY TABAN! And no one can fix it!? · December 21, 2024

video uh I reach out to every medical malpractice law firm in Los Angeles and what a surprise not one of the lawyers wanted to help Frank Tano including several firms that did Sue Dr ton in a few cases

This is the stated reason the eye-surgery actions filed twelve and sixteen days later were brought pro se — both C046 and C101 are recorded as filed without counsel. It also asserts that other malpractice suits against the same doctor exist in Los Angeles; the tracker holds no such prior actions (it records only Tufano's own). "Frank Tano" is a caption rendering of Frank Tufano — the identical "Tano" rendering appears elsewhere in this channel's captions.

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BOTCHED BY TABAN! And no one can fix it!? · December 21, 2024

question so for me at this point you know considering all these lawyers and judges will collude against me to protect this doctor uh the least stressful thing for me to do is just make everyone aware of this guy help people from being in the same situation simply by telling the truth

Among the most important statements in this research, and it points the opposite way from the pattern. On 2024-12-21 he states that the courts are closed to him and that publicity, not litigation, is his chosen course. Verified against the case tracker: C046, Tufano v. Taban et al (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011), was filed 2025-01-02, twelve days later, and C101, Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al. (L.A. Superior 25SMCV00041), on 2025-01-06, sixteen days later — both pro se, both in the eye-surgery dispute group, both naming this doctor. This is a temporal fact, not a causal claim, and it is a third evidence shape alongside the silent pre-filing statements and the announced-and-fulfilled filings recorded elsewhere in this research: disavowed, then filed. A later reader must not treat a disavowal as evidence that no filing followed.

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Bakery? Macadamia Butter! Digestive Enzymes! New Products & Restocks! FREE RANGE MEAT VLOG · December 30, 2024

unfortunately I don't think this doctor will write me a check even if it's on his death bed so uh we're going to have to try to promote the business uh keep the YouTube channel going

The opening line of the video, published three days before C046 (Tufano v. Taban et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2025-01-02) and seven days before C101 (Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al, California Superior Court 25SMCV00041, filed 2025-01-06) — the two earliest tracked actions in the eye-surgery litigation. He states the grievance and an expectation of payment; he announces no filing, names no court, no lawyer and no doctor. This is the silent pre-filing pattern this research documents elsewhere, at a lead of 3 days — the shortest yet recorded.

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Federal Judges Defend GANGSTALKERS in Court! · January 8, 2025

so I filed about a dozen lawsuits Al together and every single one of them was dismissed by a judge as I said before I could even serve the opposing Council papers

both halves are checkable. Volume: 21 docket records exist on or before 2025-01-08, of which 20 were filed by him — so "about a dozen" understates the tracker, unless he means only the 2023–2025 federal/state run (C039, C040, C041, C042, C043, C044, C045, C046, C001, C002, C092, C093, C101 = thirteen), for which it is close to exact. Outcomes: a documented cluster of dismissals precedes this video — C042 (2024-11-13), C040 (2024-12-09), C044 (2024-12-11), C041 (2024-12-16), C043 (2024-12-30), the last of those nine days before publication. But "every single one" is overbroad on the same date: C045, C046, C101, C001 and C002 were all live.

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PURE SOURDOUGH is Official! CRACKDAMIA!? Free Range Meat Vlog · January 29, 2025

the best bars uh vanilla chocolate strawberry maybe have to update you guys on that lawsuit but uh nothing ever goes my way so go figure

The only reference to a lawsuit in the video, and it arrives mid-sentence while he is reading out bar flavours. The sentence's own subject is his Best Bar product, which is the product at the centre of the Better Life / Levy product dispute — C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2023-12-20) was dismissed 2024-10-11, and C093 (Frank Tufano v. Jake Levy et al, NY Supreme, filed 2024-11-14) was pending on the day this was published. "Nothing ever goes my way" is a general expression of pessimism about the case; it is not a report of a ruling, so the quote does not carry Adverse outcome described.

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Tufano v. Taban et al 3:25-cv-00011 · February 8, 2025

in addition to Dr tabon there's several other institutions medical board of California American Academy of Opthalmology American Board of cosmetic surgery American Society of optomic plastic and reconstructive surgery ... so uh the lawsuit was filed against those organizations as well because you know how could this guy be doing this for so long and botching so many people and not have someone you know step in to stop this

Independently confirms the defendant list recorded in the case tracker for C046 (and identically for C101/C102): the Medical Board of California, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, and the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, alongside Dr. Taban. Also states the theory for joining them — regulatory/oversight failure rather than direct treatment.

Why this classification: Confirms the suit named several medical boards and specialty organisations alongside the surgeon, on a failure-to-intervene theory.

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Dr. Taban’s Post OP MALPRACTICE · February 22, 2025

so it's been about a year now since I was botched by Dr tabon and because he left me to fend for myself I may never be able to fix my eyes again instead of using his expertise and network of doctors to get me the best corrective procedures to reverse the damage that he did to me I was left to fend for myself

The clearest single statement of the post-operative-care grievance that this video's title advances as distinct from the original surgery. It names Dr. Taban (rendered "tabon" by the captions), a tracked defendant, and characterises abandonment rather than the operation itself. It describes no filing conduct — no case number, court, docket, judge or lawyer appears anywhere in the video.

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Dr. Taban’s Post OP MALPRACTICE · February 22, 2025

I haven't added this to the lawsuit but I'm going to have to because his neglect his misconduct his lack of post-operative care the lying the deceit has caused even more damage in not getting me the correct care uh to fix the eye misalignment

The load-bearing quote in the video. He states on a dated public record that a specific set of allegations — post-operative neglect, misconduct, "the lying the deceit" — is not yet in the lawsuit and that he intends to put it there. That is a statement about a filing not yet made, made while at least two Taban actions were already pending. It is a prospective filing statement, not a core filing-conduct factor, so it cannot support Strong. Tier: Moderate (Threatened or prospective filing)

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Still BOTCHED after 10 Procedures! · April 16, 2025

Yeah, I keep forgetting that not everyone has watched all my videos and knows the entire backstory. I've had over 10 corrective procedures since the botch procedure. And if you guys go to botchbytabbond.com and see those initial pictures of how I looked after the surgery, it was much much much worse. It was it was really really horrific and horrible what this guy did to my face.

A procedure count of "over 10" stated on 2025-04-16 — months earlier than the three counts wave 1 flagged as conflicting, and therefore something that sharpens the conflict rather than settling it. Note the phrasing precisely, because the denominator is doing the work: he says "over 10 corrective procedures since the botch procedure", which is a count of remedial operations after the index surgery, explicitly excluding it. The two competing readings are set out in full in ## Research Notes; this file adopts neither. The quote also carries the first of the video's two renderings of the website domain. Party statement, no source offered.

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Your Surgeon should have Before & After Photos · April 28, 2025

The doctor that completely ruined my face and left me half blind was known as the number one eye cosmetic celebrity surgeon, Dr. Tobond. and he really only had maybe half a dozen, you know, five or six really good before and after photos of proven results. And in the context of the thousands, if not tens of thousands of surgeries he's performed, that's an extremely low amount of proven before and after results.

Two quantities in one sentence, both attributed to the tracked defendant and neither recorded anywhere else in this research: a career volume of "thousands, if not tens of thousands of surgeries", and a published-results count of "maybe half a dozen, five or six" before-and-after galleries. The inference he draws — that the ratio between them is itself evidence of concealment — is the same marketing/holding-out theme that runs through the eye-surgery dispute material, here in an evidentiary rather than a medical register. It is a damages- and credibility-adjacent claim, not a filing statement, and no source is offered for either figure. A party statement, not a court finding.

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Are Doctors TRAINED TO LIE!? · April 28, 2025

But something really needs to be done. And I'm thinking of starting an organization uh to raise money to to help support botched patients and to hold these surgeons accountable because lawyers certainly won't and these medical organizations certainly won't.

Four things, and the classification turns on keeping them apart. (1) It is not a filing. Founding an advocacy organisation is not litigation, so Threatened or prospective filing does not apply and No filing-conduct factor is the correct call — recorded explicitly so a later reader can see the boundary was drawn deliberately. (2) It nonetheless sits directly alongside the threatened class action soliciting other patients that this research has recorded elsewhere, which never materialised; this is the same "organise other botched patients" impulse taking a non-litigation form, on 2025-04-28. There is likewise no organisation of this kind anywhere in the dataset, so as of the research date it appears to have gone the same way — recorded as a finding, not a gap. (3) "Lawyers certainly won't" is a first-person statement of why he proceeds without counsel, which is directly relevant to the pro-se pattern: the case tracker marks C005 and the eye-surgery-dispute filings as pro se. (4) "These medical organizations certainly won't [hold these surgeons accountable]" is the theory he had already pleaded: C046 (filed 2025-01-02, i.e. nearly four months before this video) names, per its recorded claims summary, "the Medical Board of California, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, and the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, alleging these credentialing/professional bodies bear responsibility for certifying or failing to oversee Dr. Taban." The video states the grievance in ordinary language without naming any of them.

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Doctors control the Courts and Internet! HAND OUT FLIERS · April 28, 2025

And the reason I haven't done this yet to the doctor that botched me is because I'm still being positive and I'm still hoping that someone can fix my eyes because this would be such a damaging thing. You would literally put the doctor out of business probably in a few weeks if not a month or two.

A negative datestamp — the most useful thing this video contributes. It fixes 2025-04-28 as a point at which the leafleting campaign had been announced and recruited for but, on his own account, not executed against the surgeon who operated on him. That brackets the already-archived execution evidence (the 2025-08-10 LpQS6Vn9XDg and 2025-09-24 o3brFjHWxxg Medical Malpractice Awareness livestreams) from below, and it does so in his own words rather than by absence of evidence. It also states the intended commercial magnitude ("out of business probably in a few weeks"). Tier: Moderate (Cost imposition as stated motive)

Why this classification: A dated statement that as of this video he had not yet leafleted the surgeon who operated on him, describing the anticipated harm as an effect of flyers rather than of any court filing.

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BOTCHED · April 29, 2025

This is what happened when I went to the number one celebrity eye surgeon, Dr. Tabon, and allowed him to do the procedures he recommended to improve my appearance. I trusted his years and years of expertise, his reputation as the number one eye plastic surgery doctor, and I believed him and let him do the specific surgeries that he recommended to perform on me.

This is the informed-consent / reliance theory stated in plain speech. The claims-summary record for C101 lists the pleaded causes of action as “lack of informed consent, breach of the standard of care/surgical error, injury, and damages,” with Taban allegedly “misrepresenting the risks beforehand and the results afterward.” The video's emphasis — that the procedures were his recommendation, and that Tufano relied on his reputation — tracks that pleading closely. “Tabon” is a caption garble for Taban.

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BUTCHER TABAN BOTCHED ALL FOUR PROCEDURES · April 29, 2025

If you guys have not seen my videos on botchedbyt.com, you need to watch them. There's a reason I'm exposing this guy because he botched all four procedures he did on me. Not one of them was done correctly.

The general form of the four-procedure allegation, published 2025-04-29. This research's previous earliest framing of it as a process allegation is a video from 2025-09-07, and the two existing statement-record rows on it come from videos published 2026-08-03 and 2026-08-09 — fifteen months later. So this predates those recorded statements by well over a year and the process-framing video by four months and nine days. It also carries the domain, which the captions render botchedbyt.com; the correct form is botchedbytaban.com. Party statement, no source offered.

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BUTCHER TABAN BOTCHED ALL FOUR PROCEDURES · April 29, 2025

And he should have his medical license taken away for performing an orbital decompression on me. That's how horrific this botch was. He put the implants in wrong. He did the lower eyelid retraction wrong, the canthoplasty wrong, and he did my upper eyelids uneven, too. The right one is much higher than the left. out of all four procedures, he didn't get one right.

The load-bearing quote in this slice. It answers the process-vs-outcome question the way neither existing row does — it is both, plus a third thing: - Process: "He put the implants in wrong", "he did the lower eyelid retraction wrong, the canthoplasty wrong" — allegations about how the operating was performed. - Outcome: "he did my upper eyelids uneven", "the right one is much higher than the left" — the observable result. - Indication: "he should have his medical license taken away for performing an orbital decompression on me" — not that it was done badly but that it should not have been done at all. That third category is the one the promoted rows do not carry, and it aligns with the theory he reads from his own complaint in aWuq0jViHQQ (2025-02-08): "no other surgeons in the world are performing this orbital decompression procedure for cosmetic purposes."

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BOTCHED · April 29, 2025

you guys can understand why I say this guy should be in prison, let alone practicing medicine because it is completely disgusting and despicable how he could do this to my face and not care or not try to help me

Records the severity and register of his public commentary about a defendant while two suits against that defendant were pending. It establishes nothing about Dr. Taban; it is evidence of what was said and when. Note that the same call — "He should be in jail" — recurs a week later in 1rajgdsbAcA (2025-05-06), so this is a settled formulation rather than a one-off.

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BOTCHED · April 29, 2025

Yeah, I've already had 10 corrective procedures and I'm still half blind and I still have to get a few more surgeries. So just to address that for you guys that's saying I look a lot different. Yeah. About $100,000 later and uh five times going under anesthesia since in the span of a

Four quantified claims with a date attached to them — as of 2025-04-29: 10 corrective procedures, five general anaesthetics, ~$100,000 spent, and "still half blind." The dataset has the injury language but not the numbers: C101's complaint pleads that he was left "deformed" and "near-blind"; C063's pleads "partial blindness, physical disability, and disfigurement" with total damages of $3,010,000 ($430,000 per defendant). The $100,000 here is a different quantity from the $3,010,000 pled — out-of-pocket corrective spend versus total damages across seven-plus defendants — so the two are not in conflict, but the spread is recorded rather than reconciled, per the addendum's standing instruction. Not

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Fund Raiser for Botch Victims · May 5, 2025

So, it's been about a year and a half since Dr. Tobond botched my eyes. Basically ended my YouTube career, which my business was dependent on. And I never thought I'd be in a situation where I'd have to ask for money because I was pretty financially stable.

A self-reported causation-and-damages statement, and a datable one: “about a year and a half” before 2025-05-05 puts the index surgery around late 2023, which later research can test against the pleadings in C046 / C101. The recorded litigation timeline's entries for the eye-surgery dispute begin only at 2025-01-03 and 2025-01-06, and the dispute-group record carries no underlying-event date for it — so the dataset currently has no date for the underlying event. The tier is Moderate, with no filing-conduct factor.

Why this classification: Moderate because it dates the underlying eye-surgery injury to roughly late 2023 and ties it to the loss of his YouTube-dependent business — the causation and damages pleaded in the related actions C046 and C101 — while describing no filing conduct of any kind.

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Fund Raiser for Botch Victims · May 5, 2025

you know, 10 surgeries later and my insurance isn't covering this stuff and I still have to go see more plastic surgeons to attempt to fix this. I basically ready to give up. And I don't know how much longer it's going to take, but hopefully uh we can get some remediation from the doctor himself and I'll be able to pay back people if they do help me.

States a self-reported surgery count (10) and describes the outcome he expects from the pending litigation, expressly as the source of repayment for donors. That is an unusual and research-relevant framing: donations are solicited against an anticipated litigation recovery.

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Dr. Taban uses his network of GANGSTALKERS TO HARASS ME · May 6, 2025

So, Dr. Taban continues to hire these Illuminati gangstalkers to leave comments on my video, saying it was my fault, saying I'm scamming people for donations when I'm a victim of medical malpractice.

Names a tracked defendant correctly spelled in the captions — a rarity on this channel, where twelve wrong caption renderings of this surname are on record — and alleges he is paying people to post comments. It also gives his own characterisation of the underlying claim: "I'm a victim of medical malpractice." That is the theory of the Taban eye-surgery dispute. No source is offered for the hiring allegation, and this research takes no position on it. Note also that this is a statement about ongoing conduct ("continues to") made while C046 and C101 were both live against Taban.

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Dr. Taban uses his network of GANGSTALKERS TO HARASS ME · May 6, 2025

what this guy did to my face was completely disgusting and horrific. He should be in jail, let alone have his medical license taken away. But the reality is that he's still mutilating people's faces from his $10 million Beverly Hills mansion.

The most severe statement in the video about a tracked party — a call for criminal consequences and licence revocation, plus an assertion that he continues to injure other patients. Records the register and severity of his public commentary about a defendant during live litigation, which is what makes it research-relevant; it establishes no fact about Taban. The "$10 million Beverly Hills mansion" line names a city only, no address, and concerns a public-facing medical practice, so §5 does not reach it. Not a redaction case: the subject is a party to tracked proceedings, which §5 expressly excludes.

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Paid Shills brigading my posts to HIDE THE TRUTH · May 9, 2025

Uh-oh. Looks like Dr. Taban has his full Illuminati goon squad on payroll because after posting that orbital reconstruction video last night, I woke up to like a hundred comments.

One of the few statements researched from this period where the surgeon is named in the transcript itself rather than only in the title — the captions render it correctly as "Dr. Taban" here, before degrading into three wrong spellings in the passage he reads aloud. It also carries a rare internal lag marker: "that orbital reconstruction video last night" fixes the preceding upload to about 2025-05-08 and puts this recording within a day of publication. "Illuminati" recurs across the researched videos as his framing for opposing parties — the statement record shows the same label applied elsewhere to Paul Saladino. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)

Why this classification: He names the surgeon in his own words and ties the recording to the previous night's upload, recording his allegation of an organised comment campaign rather than any filing he made or planned.

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Taban’s Lawyers HARASS ME while I’m still trying to fix my eyes · May 9, 2025

despite still having to get medical care and undergo many surgeries, I have been forced to still have to um to still have to participate in the court proceedings. So hopefully the judges in the federal and superior California court uh did receive my notice to delay the case or someone sees this and tells them what I look like before they get crucified in front of a a jury trial.

The strongest quote researched from this video. He identifies two concurrent forums by description — "the federal and superior California court" — and as of 2025-05-09 the dataset holds exactly two live actions in the eye-surgery dispute matching that description: C046 (filed M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011 on 2025-01-02 and, per the recorded litigation timeline, transferred and opened in the Central District of California as 2:25-cv-00147 on 2025-01-03), and C101 (Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, 25SMCV00041, filed 2025-01-06). "Federal … California" and "superior California court" map onto those two and onto nothing else in the dataset on that date. He also confirms a filing he has made — a "notice to delay the case," i.e. a continuance request grounded in medical incapacity — filed in one or both. This is the earliest continuance-on-health-grounds statement located in the archive; the dataset's other health-and-trial-fitness material in this action is from 2026-07-10 / 2026-07-15, fourteen months later. Party statement, no source offered; the filing is asserted, not evidenced.

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Is this EXTORTION!? · June 3, 2025

So, Dr. Taban hired this famous celebrity Hollywood lawyer to harass me with a cease and desist, which we did a pretty lengthy YouTube video on today. But one thing they claimed was that this email I sent him is extortion.

Establishes the whole sequence in one sentence: a tracked defendant retained counsel, counsel sent a cease and desist, and counsel characterised his settlement email as extortion. It is the accusation, sourced to the other side, that the rest of the video answers. "which we did a pretty lengthy YouTube video on today" is also an internal marker pointing at a companion long-form upload — see Research Notes, where it does not resolve cleanly.

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Is this EXTORTION!? · June 3, 2025

Temporary resolution. In order to preserve your reputation and alleviate any unnecessary consequences, I'm offering a temporary resolution until the court matter is settled for $1 million per year from the date of the injury. Until the court matters are settled and an agreement is reached, Frank Tfano will remove all content and sees posting all content related to his injuries caused by Dr. Toban. This amount will be credited towards any court judgments that are issued.

A monetary demand for content removal, read out verbatim on camera by the person who sent it — the most directly significant document among the statements researched from this video. Its terms are specific: $1 million per year running from the date of the injury, in exchange for removing and ceasing all content about the injury, creditable against any judgment. Note that it presupposes pending litigation twice ("until the court matter is settled", "any court judgments that are issued"). This is a passage read aloud from a written document rather than spontaneous speech.

Why this classification: He reads out verbatim the $1 million-per-year demand he sent in exchange for removing all content about the injury, a term sheet that presupposes the two Taban eye-surgery actions then pending but describes no filing of his own.

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Taban gets my TikTok taken down AFTER BOTCHING MY FACE · June 5, 2025

So, this famous celebrity eye doctor disfigured my face and left me halfb blind. And I've been exposing him on social media to try to get some sort of reimbursement.

He states the purpose of the exposure campaign in his own words: it is run "to try to get some sort of reimbursement" — i.e. non-litigation public pressure applied with the object of extracting a payment. That is the shape the addendum's leafleting rule addresses, so Cost imposition as stated motive is recorded and the tier is held at Moderate: the factor fits because a financial object is the stated motive, but the Strong rubric requires filing conduct and the mechanism here is a social-media campaign, not a filing. The call is arguable and is flagged as such — a narrower reading is that the motive stated is obtaining money for himself rather than imposing cost on the opponent, which would make it No filing-conduct factor. The mechanism is written out so a promotion pass can re-decide with the reasoning visible.

Why this classification: He gives the purpose of his social-media campaign against the surgeon as obtaining reimbursement, describing a publicity mechanism rather than any filing.

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Taban gets my TikTok taken down AFTER BOTCHING MY FACE · June 5, 2025

The court system is controlled. I mean, even the social media is controlled, but everything is controlled. So, the judge is just going to dismiss the case. They're never going to give me any money. They're never going to pay me because these people are connected.

A textbook Judicial or forum bias alleged statement — the courts are "controlled", the defendants are "connected", and the dismissal is treated as a foregone conclusion. He says "the case", singular, and names no court, docket number or judge, so which action he means cannot be fixed from the transcript. Worth noting that his prediction is, on the docket, largely what happened across the Taban eye-surgery litigation: C063 was closed with the TRO denied and his objections overruled as "unavailing", and C046 and the California actions produced no recorded recovery.

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Dr. Taban is THE BEST EYE DOCTOR!!! · June 7, 2025

I am so happy after having eye surgery with Dr. Tabon. Dr. Taban is the best doctor. He is the best eye surgeon in the whole wide world. It has only taken me a year and a half after the procedure to realize his full skill and expertise in my new and amazing appearance.

Sarcastic — every clause inverts. The research value is the buried factual marker: "a year and a half after the procedure", said on a video published 2025-06-07, places the surgery around late 2023 / early 2024. That is the first event in the eye-surgery dispute's chronology and it is not recorded anywhere in the dataset with a date. The earliest tracked filings in that dispute are C046 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011, 2025-01-02) and C101 (LA Superior 25SMCV00041, 2025-01-06), both roughly a year after the implied procedure date. No filing conduct is described.

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Seeking Taban’s Victims for CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT · June 8, 2025

legal repercussions. Dr. Tabon is trying to scare you as a patient because he is worried about having to pay for medical malpractice.

States the cause of action the prospective collective action would run on — medical malpractice — which is the theory of both pending Taban cases. The claims-summary record describes C046 as pleading “medical malpractice against Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban and his practice … arising from a cosmetic/ophthalmic surgical procedure,” and C101 as “a professional-negligence claim … pled as four causes of action.” So the announced multi-claimant action would have run on the same theory against the same defendant as two suits he already had on file.

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CA State Judge IGNORES MY FILINGS · June 10, 2025

There was a hearing on May 7th, actually the date of my orbital reconstruction surgery where the court granted the opposition a motion when I was literally undergoing surgery at that time.

The only date-precise statement among this group of researched statements, and it lands exactly on the docket. The recorded court findings include two orders dated 2025-05-07 in C101 (Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al., 25SMCV00041, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County), both granting motions brought by the opposition and both before Judge Edward B. Moreton, Jr.: a minute order concerning ASOPRS, with a mirrored tentative ruling stating the court would grant ASOPRS's motion to quash service for lack of personal jurisdiction; and a minute order concerning the Medical Board, with a mirrored tentative ruling stating the court would sustain the Medical Board's demurrer without leave to amend.

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CA State Judge IGNORES MY FILINGS · June 10, 2025

and the court has ignored all of my previous requests and filings to postpone the case and delay the case. The judge is literally ignoring my filings and pretending I don't exist and granting the opposition their motions.

Names a specific, checkable category of filing — requests to postpone or continue — made before 2025-06-10 in the case identified above. That is a concrete docket cross-reference point: C101's register of actions on the LA Superior CAP portal would show whether continuance requests were filed and how they were disposed of. Note that C101 was later dismissed as an OSC sanction for non-appearance (2025-10-13), which is the opposite failure mode from the one alleged here — a tension worth carrying into any claims pass.

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CA State Judge IGNORES MY FILINGS · June 10, 2025

I'm waiting to hear back from the court. I don't know what's going on. I mailed in my documents. I paid the filing fee and the judge is literally just ignoring this stuff. So, it's it's it's ridiculous. I I' I'd rather not deal with the stress of this and just stand outside catching a tan for the rest of my life, handing out flyers of my [word dropped] up face in front of this doctor's office.

The pivot stated in one breath — he describes mailing documents and paying a filing fee, says it produced nothing, and in the same sentence substitutes standing outside the defendant's office handing out flyers, "for the rest of my life." That is Cost imposition as stated motive: an indefinite pressure campaign offered as what he does instead of litigating. Per the batch contract's leafleting rule this tiers Moderate, not Strong — the factor fits, but the Strong rubric requires filing conduct and the cost mechanism here is the leafleting. The mechanism is written out so the call is auditable. "This doctor's office" is a public figure's professional premises and no address is given, so §5 does not apply.

Why this classification: Alleges that the judge in his California state case is ignoring documents he mailed and a filing fee he paid, and offers indefinite leafleting outside the doctor's office as what he would do instead — the substitute conduct is publicity, not a filing.

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“Forget about the Doctor and focus on your Business” · June 12, 2025

Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt I'm in from the 10 medical procedures I've had in the past two years.

A dated, numeric statement of claimed medical damages — a procedure count and a debt magnitude — from the plaintiff in the malpractice actions, spoken in June 2025. lawsuits. csv records C046 (Tufano v. Taban et al, filed 2025-01-02) resolving on 2026-08-07 by sua sponte summary judgment for the defendant, the court having excluded his expert testimony and held that "without admissible expert testimony Plaintiff could not prove essential elements" — so what the damages were claimed to be, and when, is worth having on the record independently of what was ever proved. "The past two years" is the only date anchor and is approximate.

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Time to GIVE UP ON THE COURT SYSTEM? Please help hand out Flyers! · June 12, 2025

And then we had to file uh some stuff against the current Tibon lawsuits. And there was also uh two new lawsuits. We had to file a third party complaint against the lawyer that got my Tik Tok taken down. And then we had to file a uh a new lawsuit against the bond for the torchious interference in getting my uh Tik Tok taken down. So, there were two lawsuits related to the Tik Tok getting taken down.

TikTok here is the tracked dispute, not the everyday noun — he is describing litigation over the platform takedown, not casual platform use. "The lawyer that got my Tik Tok taken down" corresponds to Lavely & Singer PC (also rendered "Lively & Singer" in captions elsewhere), a named defendant in C014 (Lackawanna 2025-04277, filed 2025-06-06, six days before publication). "The bond" is a caption mangling of Taban, who appears in the defendant roster of C053, the federal continuation of C014. Moderate, not Strong: Filing announced or confirmed is not a core factor.

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EYE UPDATE 10 Surgeries and 20 Months after Taban Botch · June 28, 2025

Yeah. And I'm not too confident in the lawsuit and the legal system either because in my experience uh these judges just are just going to protect the doctor and I'm not going to get anything out of it.

A bias allegation attached to a specific, identifiable proceeding (the California malpractice action) rather than to courts in general.

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EYE UPDATE 10 Surgeries and 20 Months after Taban Botch · June 28, 2025

I've literally been like physically disabled and unable to really read anything for the beginning part of this year. And I had someone send a letter in to the California court explaining, hey, uh, you know, I'm I'm still having some vision and eye issues and I still have to get additional surgical procedures. Can we please postpone the proceedings for several months? For some reason, the judge ignored that notice to court.

A party's account of an unfavourable procedural ruling in a named forum. This is a party allegation, not a court finding, and no order to that effect appears in the recorded litigation timeline; whether such a letter was filed and how it was treated is a docket question.

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Dr. Taban is a LIAR that will SAY OR DO ANYTHING · July 4, 2025

in the case of Dr. Tabon, he lied about the initial procedure, the side effects and results that he was able to give me when I first met him. After the procedure was clearly messed up, he attempted to gaslight me and manipulate me to convince me nothing was wrong so that it would be too late for me to file a lawsuit or or get anything from him by the time I figured out something was wrong.

A specific and legally-shaped allegation — that the defendant's reassurances were designed to run out the time in which a malpractice claim could be brought. That is a delayed- discovery / equitable-tolling theory stated in lay terms, and it is the kind of allegation a claims pass on C046 or C101 would want to check against what was actually pleaded. Recorded as his allegation; no court has found anything of the sort.

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This Doctor is the OPPOSITE OF TABAN · July 5, 2025

You guys mostly see videos about Dr. Tobond because I'm exposing him for what he did to my face. And although my eyes aren't completely fixed, thanks to Dr. Raymond Douglas, I basically don't look like an abomination of a freak.

Two things worth recording. First, "I'm exposing him" is a plain statement of the channel's stated purpose as to a tracked defendant — Mehryar Ray Taban MD and his practice, the central defendants of the Taban eye-surgery litigation — relevant background to the C046 record, whose Aug. 7, 2026 order cites "inconsistent public video activity" in its credibility analysis. Second, it places the revising surgery on the mitigation side of the damages chain, and does so favourably — consistent with another researched statement ("he fixes other surgeons mistakes … unfortunately, he could not fix my eyes") but not identical to it: here the outcome is described as a partial success. No filing, court, case or docket is named.

Why this classification: States the channel's own purpose as "exposing" a tracked defendant in the Taban eye-surgery litigation and credits the revising surgeon on the mitigation side of the damages chain — background to the C046/C101 record, naming no filing, court or docket.

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This Doctor is the OPPOSITE OF TABAN · July 5, 2025

guy Dr. Tobond did to me is basically irreversible because of how many procedures that he messed up.

A dated statement that the alleged injury is permanent and multi-procedural — which is the damages theory of C046 and C101. The claims-summary record for C101 notes that the complaint alleges “a combination of four cosmetic procedures” on 2023-11-29 leaving him “deformed” and “near-blind.” This is the same claim, restated on camera about 20 months later, while C046 and C101 were both pending. It is an allegation by a party, not a medical finding and not a court finding; C046 later drew a sua sponte summary judgment for the defendant (2026-08-07), and the order cited “insufficient medical support.”

Why this classification: Restates on camera, while C046 and C101 were both pending, the permanent multi-procedure injury alleged in the C101 complaint — a party allegation rather than a medical or judicial finding, and it announces no filing.

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USDA GANGSTALKING · July 11, 2025

You have secret society members in all organizations in the USDA. It's probably just low-level Freemasons. And there is no coincidence that they showed up to my business at the same time that I had a court hearing with my medical malpractice case involving Dr. Tobond.

This sentence yokes two otherwise separate tracked disputes together — the USDA/SNAP litigation and the Taban eye-surgery litigation — and it supplies a checkable internal marker: a court hearing in the malpractice matter contemporaneous with a USDA visit to his business. Earlier research already dates such a hearing: a researched statement from a video published 2025-07-11, the same day as this Short, quotes a filing reciting "a hearing that occurred on July 10th, 2025, Judge Edward B. Morton Jr." — which is C101 (Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al., L.A. Superior 25SMCV00041). On that reading the USDA visit occurred on or about 2025-07-10. Two cautions: the alternative candidate is C046 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011, litigated as C.D. Cal. 2:25-cv-00147), also a malpractice matter, and this clip names neither case nor court; and the conspiracy inference ("no coincidence") is his, not this research's. This research takes no position on whether the allegation is true. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)

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CA Judge allows Doctors Lawyers to COMMIT PERJURY AGAINST BLIND PATIENT · July 13, 2025

To sum up how the Tiban lawsuit is going, basically they took advantage of me being blind and disabled in bed for the first few months of this year because I was unable to receive any correspondence or communicate with the court and I tried explaining that to the court which they denied.

A dated, first-person account of a claimed incapacity covering "the first few months of this year" — January to roughly April 2025 — and of the court rejecting his explanation. This is the same claimed incapacity that, more than a year later, the C.D. Cal. court in C046 found unsupported: the recorded court findings include Judge Stephen V. Wilson's 2026-08-07 order citing "insufficient medical support for claimed incapacity, public video activity inconsistent with that claimed incapacity." Recording the July 2025 version of the claim in his own words gives that later finding an earlier baseline to be read against. Tier: Moderate (Adverse outcome described).

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CA Judge allows Doctors Lawyers to COMMIT PERJURY AGAINST BLIND PATIENT · July 13, 2025

So, we filed this motion to dismiss for insufficient service of process. We filed another motion to get rid of this biased judge and I filed a whole bunch of other stuff asking for sanctions against them.

Three distinct filings claimed, all checkable. The disqualification motion matches what the research already holds from three days either side of this: a researched statement of 2025-07-10 — "I'm going to file… a motion to disqualify the judge" — and a published statement of 2025-07-11 — "Motion to recuse and demand for jury trial. In a hearing that occurred on July 10th, 2025, Judge Edward B. Morton Jr. has shown undeniable bias." So on 2025-07-10 it is stated as an intention and by 2025-07-13 as done: this video is the confirmation of a filing the dataset otherwise holds only as a stated intent. The first of the three claimed filings does not fit his posture. He is the plaintiff in every tracked matter in this dispute (C046, C101, C102), and a plaintiff does not move to dismiss his own case for insufficient service. Either he means a motion directed at the defendants' service of their papers on him, or the description is loose. Neither reading is adopted; the tension is recorded rather than resolved.

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CA Judge allows Doctors Lawyers to COMMIT PERJURY AGAINST BLIND PATIENT · July 13, 2025

And I I'm already filing appeals. Like, I know this is going to go to the court of appeals and who knows if they'll even allow it to go up to the Supreme Court, but like nothing's even happened already and they're already trying to screw me as much as possible.

An appellate-intent statement with an unusually close docket neighbour. The case tracker records for C046 that “Two Ninth Circuit appeals are on file in this action… No. 25-4324 (docketed July 14, 2025; opening brief filed Aug. 8, 2025).” This video was published 2025-07-13, the day before. A competing and equally available referent: another researched statement, from a video of 2025-07-11, records him saying “Judge Edward B. Morton Jr. has ignored Frank Tufano's notice of appeal filed on June 2nd, exhibit C” — so an appeal was, on his own account, already on file in the California state matter six weeks earlier, and “already filing appeals” may simply refer to that. Both readings are recorded; neither is adopted. Note also that a direct appeal within the same case is deliberately not Filing after an adverse decision under the published rubric — that factor means a new or repeat action, not the ordinary appellate remedy.

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STILL CROSSEYED!? Can the Doctor Help me? · August 7, 2025

Basically, whatever this first doctor did to me to bond [Taban] messed me up so horribly that it's like a complete disaster and it's so difficult for any of the top surgeons to fix it.

The one point in the video where the surgeon is actually named rather than referred to by role, and it states the core grievance of the eye-surgery dispute — that the first operation caused harm no subsequent surgeon can undo. Mehryar Ray Taban MD and Mehryar Taban MD Inc are defendants in C046 (Tufano v. Taban et al, filed 2025-01-02), C101 (2025-01-06), C102 (2025-10-23) and C053 (2025-06-27). Naming a defendant is only half the Strong test; there is no filing conduct described anywhere in this sentence, so the tier stops at Moderate. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)

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Taban has PAID EVERYONE OFF · August 24, 2025

Guys, the t-shirts are not for sale despite the army of Tibon [Taban] bots being awfully worried about it. They're just for the people to wear as they're handing out flyers and brochures

Establishes the mechanics of the street campaign — branded t-shirts worn by people distributing flyers and brochures — and names the surgeon in the same breath, so the campaign's target is not in doubt. Taken alone this sentence states no motive and no filing, so no cost or filing factor fires on it; the motive arrives at [0:42] and is quoted separately below. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)

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EYE UPDATE - Still DISFIGURED and CROSSEYED · August 29, 2025

And I I can't understand how this guy Tabon [Taban] botched my eyes so horrifically and took so much tissue out that no one can fix it.

One of the few statements researched from this stretch of the channel where a tracked defendant is actually named in the transcript rather than only in the title. Mehryar Ray Taban MD and Mehryar Taban MD Inc are defendants across the eye-surgery cases, including C046 (Tufano v. Taban et al, filed 2025-01-02), C101 (filed 2025-01-06) and C102 (filed 2025-10-23). But naming a defendant is only half the Strong test — the sentence describes an alleged surgical outcome, not any filing conduct, so no filing factor fires and the tier stops at Moderate. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor).

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STARTING FROM SCRATCH!? Orbital Reconstruction · September 2, 2025

So, I had orbital reconstruction done back in May with Dr. Raven [Raymond] Douglas, and the surgery went well, but I— I guess they underestimated the amount of tissue that was removed from my orbital socket by Dr. Tobon [Taban], and he's refusing to help me further.

Dates the orbital reconstruction surgery to May 2025 and records a refusal of further treatment as of early September 2025. The dataset's other record of that refusal comes from a video published forty days later (2025-10-12) and attributes it to the surgeon's lawyers having subpoenaed the treating doctor's office; this video gives a different stated reason, and the two accounts are recorded side by side rather than reconciled. It fixes a medical-chronology date material to the damages narrative in the tracked California actions, but describes no filing conduct.

Why this classification: Fixes the orbital reconstruction to May 2025 and dates a refusal of further treatment to early September 2025, supplying medical-chronology background to the eye-surgery damages narrative without describing any filing conduct.

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Dr. Taban WINGED 4 PROCEDURES with no Scans or Measurements! · September 7, 2025

Not only did Dr. Tobon insist on performing four cosmetic procedures at once, that was his recommendation and he was super confident in doing it. He did not do any preparation. No scans, no measurements, no preop stuff, just wing the surgery.

Tracks the recorded claims summary for the Los Angeles action element for element: the four-at-once combination as the surgeon's own recommendation, which goes to informed consent, and the absence of scans, measurements and pre-operative workup, which goes to standard of care.

Why this classification: Unusually specific for this channel and earlier than the dataset's other four-procedure statements by eleven months, but it names no case, court, docket or cause of action and describes no filing conduct. The mapping onto pleaded counts is a research inference, not something the speaker says.

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Dr. Taban WINGED 4 PROCEDURES with no Scans or Measurements! · September 7, 2025

And I mean, in hindsight, that's a large reason why it was so horrifically Bosch and why everything was done incorrectly. and every single other doctor I've been to after they've gotten scans, they've taken measurements, there are tools that these oculoplastic surgeons are supposed to be using, not just winging four procedures at once on on four different patients in the same day.

Adds an allegation not otherwise recorded in the dataset, that four procedures were performed on four different patients the same day, and contrasts it with later treating physicians who took scans and measurements. The clause is ambiguous as captioned and is not resolved.

Why this classification: A party allegation about an opposing surgeon's practice, offered with no source and no supporting document; it bears on the standard-of-care subject matter of the dispute and not on any filing, and no judicial finding supports it.

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Dr. Taban WINGED 4 PROCEDURES with no Scans or Measurements! · September 7, 2025

There's multiple reasons why this guy should have his medical license taken away. And the ridiculousness of what he's been able to get away with is part of it.

States a desired outcome, revocation of the surgeon's medical licence, which is the regulatory theory behind naming the Medical Board of California as a defendant in the tracked eye-surgery actions. No filing is announced or described.

Why this classification: Records what the speaker wants to happen to an opposing party rather than anything he has filed or intends to file, so it carries no filing-conduct weight; the link to the tracked actions runs through the Medical Board defendant and is a research inference rather than a statement he makes.

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Board Certified HOT SACK OF SH*T · September 15, 2025

As soon as I serve them legal papers, they drop this doctor like a hot sack of [expletive omitted by the captions] Medical Board of California, American Academy of Opthalmology, American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, American Society of Atomic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, they all said the same thing. "We have nothing to do with Dr. Tabon's actions or his practice.

He confirms on camera that he served legal papers on four named credentialing and licensing bodies, all of them tracked defendants, and names the surgeon. The closing sentence is his rendering of their replies, framed as such, not his own position.

Why this classification: Service of legal papers on named tracked defendants is filing conduct he confirms in his own words, which supports Moderate; it is not Strong because confirming a filing is not one of the three core factors and the statement describes no repeat filing, no new action after an adverse decision and no cost-imposition motive.

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Opioid Epidemic is FAKE! They want you SUFFERING · September 15, 2025

Yeah, no problem if Dr. Tibon mutilates my face for the rest of my life and I have to lie in my bed in pain and all these other surgeries I've had to have. None of these doctors prescribe me enough pain medication. So yeah, no, it's perfectly okay that I give you 20 $30,000 to gouge my eyes out, but as soon as I'm in pain as a result of your medical procedure, then I'm not allowed to get pain medication.

Names the surgeon at the centre of the eye-surgery dispute, in the caption garble Dr. Tibon, and attaches a stated sum paid for the index procedure along with an account of further corrective surgeries. Note that the passage is delivered sarcastically: he is asserting the opposite of the literal words, not saying the outcome was acceptable.

Why this classification: Supplies damages and treatment background for a tracked dispute and names the surgeon, but the case link rests on the party name alone and the statement describes an injury rather than any filing behaviour.

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Board Certified HOT SACK OF SH*T · September 15, 2025

So, none of that matters. And yeah, of course, they're not completely responsible for the guy's actions, but the reason we're in court is to determine what percent responsibility you have. and ruining my

States his own theory for suing the credentialing bodies rather than only the surgeon, namely apportionment of responsibility, and confirms that an action is live. The quote ends mid-sentence because the video does.

Why this classification: It confirms a live proceeding and explains why the organisations were joined, which is filing conduct at the level of an announced or confirmed filing; the case identity is inferred from the publication date rather than stated, so Moderate is the ceiling.

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Eye Plastic Surgery is a Lagging Field · October 2, 2025

I was botched by the most famous and popular supposedly best eye plastic surgeon Dr. Tobant which brings me to the statement that I don't believe the field in general has any significant medical talent.

A first-person assertion that the speaker was botched by the surgeon at the centre of the eye-surgery dispute, whose name the captions render as Dr Tobant, followed by a general claim about the specialty.

Why this classification: The tracked party is named in the transcript itself rather than only in the title and the injury is asserted, but no case, court, filing or lawyer is mentioned, and no judicial finding supports the characterisation.

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Dr. Taban LIED ABOUT SURGERY RISK · October 3, 2025

The biggest lie that Dr. Tibbon has made to me and is probably some catchphrase he's come up with to tell all of his patients is that orbital decompression only has a 1% chance of double vision. What he actually means to say is that orbital decompression has a 20% chance of making you a crosseyed freak. Closer to a coin flip than what he was suggesting.

The factual allegation underlying the informed-consent theory, with figures attached: a 1 percent risk of double vision he says he was quoted against a 20 percent risk he asserts is real.

Why this classification: Moderate because it is the substance of what the claims summary for the California action records as misrepresentation of the risks, stated first-hand, with no filing conduct described. The 20 percent figure is his own assertion offered with no source, and the surname is garbled in the captions.

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Dr. Taban LIED ABOUT SURGERY RISK · October 3, 2025

And then to use the word double vision as opposed to strabismas, literally that's one of the things I sued him for, fraudulent concealment.

He names a specific cause of action on camera, fraudulent concealment, as one of the things he sued the surgeon for, and gives the factual basis he attaches to it. The dataset does not currently record a fraudulent-concealment count for any of the eye-surgery cases.

Why this classification: Moderate because he confirms a filing he has made, which is a non-core factor and cannot reach Strong; no repeat filing, no filing after an adverse decision and no cost-imposition motive is described. The precision is what makes it useful, but it is his own lay wording, not a docket citation, and no case number or court is spoken.

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Is Dr. Taban the BIGGEST BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS!? · October 10, 2025

He even upcharged me the day before. The day before after I had my consultation with him where he took no X-rays and did no measurements. He suddenly said, "Oh, I think we need to do a medial decompression. So that's going to be $9,000 more dollars." And then he swiped my credit card, put $9,000 more dollars on the bill, and that next day he botched every single one of the four procedures he did on me and completely ruined my vision and my life.

The most concrete factual allegation in the video: a specific sum added the day before surgery, a named additional procedure, and the absence of X-rays or measurements at the consultation. That is the factual substrate of the malpractice and consumer claims in the surgery dispute.

Why this classification: It supplies dated, specific background to a tracked dispute and identifies the party, but describes no filing; the sentence inside it beginning Oh, I think we need to do a medial decompression is the speaker performing the surgeon's words from memory and is attributed as such within the quote.

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Dr. Taban OBSTRUCTS MEDICAL TREATMENT after Botching Me!!! · October 12, 2025

After spending over $50,000 on orbital reconstruction surgery, Dr. Raymond Douglas no longer wanted to treat me as a patient. And the only reason I could think of why is that Dr. Tobond's bully lawyers [...] subpoenaed this doctor's office for medical records when they could have just asked me. And although Dr. Douglas is not involved directly in any legal issues, I can understand why, you know, he's getting letters from lawyers pertaining me, he doesn't want to treat me anymore.

Describes a discovery step he attributes to the opposing side, a subpoena to a non-party physician's office for medical records, and the consequence he says followed, namely that the physician stopped treating him. It supplies the factual predicate for the tortious-interference intention stated later in the same video.

Why this classification: Moderate on an adverse outcome described, which is a docket-adjacent fact rather than filing conduct of his own. Two things limit it: he says expressly that the causal inference is his own guess, and he says expressly that the treating physician is not involved in any legal issue. The $50,000 figure is what he says he spent, not a pleaded or established amount, and the opposing lawyers are never named.

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Dr. Taban OBSTRUCTS MEDICAL TREATMENT after Botching Me!!! · October 12, 2025

So now I'm adding Dr. to Bond's lawyer as part of the case as a third party for torsious interference for ruining my life because now I can no longer get uh medical treatment from the most qualified doctor in the United [States]

A first-person statement of intended litigation conduct that names the intended target, the surgeon's lawyer, the vehicle, joinder as a third party to an existing case, and the cause of action, tortious interference. That is unusually specific for this channel.

Why this classification: Moderate on a threatened or prospective filing, which is not a core factor. Repeat filing on the same dispute was considered and not applied: he describes adding a party to an existing case, not commencing a new action, so the core repeat-filing factor does not fit and Strong is unavailable. No firm, case or court is named, and the second California action did not exist on the publication date.

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Was this Corrupt Freemason Judge PAID OFF BY DR. TABAN!? · October 16, 2025

So, I've been trying my best to represent myself in the state court against Dr. Toban, but this judge has been screwing me over since day one,

Confirms pro-se status in an identified forum, identifies the opposing party by surname and alleges the presiding judge has been against him since day one. The judge is never named and no court has made any finding on the allegation.

Why this classification: The allegation of judicial bias is stated plainly and the forum and opposing party are identified well enough to reach a tracked case, but the statement describes the court's conduct rather than any filing of his own, so it is Moderate.

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Was this Corrupt Freemason Judge PAID OFF BY DR. TABAN!? · October 16, 2025

Yeah, you can make up lies and dismiss my case and tell me the wrong hearing times and pretend that half of my documents weren't filed, saying I didn't submit a case management statement, yet I literally filed one in July. I mean, I filed a notice of appeal on this, but I I don't really care. These this judge is is not following the rules of the court.

He complains that the court dismissed his case for a missing case management statement he says he filed in July, and confirms he filed a notice of appeal from that dismissal. The recited ground matches a dismissal order recorded three days before publication.

Why this classification: A confirmed notice of appeal is filing conduct he reports himself and the adverse outcome is described, but a direct appeal within the same case is deliberately not treated as filing after an adverse decision, so no core factor applies and the tier is Moderate.

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Was this Corrupt Freemason Judge PAID OFF BY DR. TABAN!? · October 16, 2025

I've had to file multiple appeals. It takes it like they take two weeks to correspond with the West Coast cord and by the time they mail it to me, my actions are already getting dismissed because it's taking too long.

A first-person statement of appellate filing volume and of the mechanism he attributes his dismissals to, cross-country mail delay to a West Coast court. It is not a claim of volume across forums and multiple appeals is undated and unquantified.

Why this classification: He gives his own count of filings, which is a non-core factor, alongside a description of outcomes against him; no repeat filing, new action after a loss or cost motive is named, so the statement stays Moderate.

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Judge FRAUDULENTLY Dismissed my Case · October 17, 2025

The judge dismissed my case for failing to submit a case management statement, but I mailed that to the court and all defendant parties in July. Well, basically August, but still several months ago.

States the specific procedural ground on which a case was dismissed. This is the detail that identifies the underlying proceeding — "case management statement" is California civil-procedure terminology (CM-110), and the case tracker records an Oct. 13, 2025 minute order in C101 (25SMCV00041, LA County Superior Court) indexed as an Order to Show Cause re sanctions for failure to submit a case-management statement, four days before this video's publish date.

Why this classification: Reports dismissal for failure to file a case management statement and disputes the premise, saying he mailed it months earlier.

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Judge FRAUDULENTLY Dismissed my Case · October 17, 2025

documents is that case management statement dated July 10th, but this was before I started e-iling.

Gives a specific date for the filing he says was ignored. Independently notable because another researched video, "California Judge ABUSES BLIND PATIENT to Defend Doctor" (published 2025-07-11), records a read-aloud motion to recuse citing a July 10, 2025 hearing before the same California judge — the same date, from a different video, in the same proceeding.

Why this classification: Dates his case management statement to July 10 and notes it predates his move to e-filing — the timing on which the dismissal dispute turns.

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Judge FRAUDULENTLY Dismissed my Case · October 17, 2025

I don't know whether the judge just chose to ignore my filings, whether he did not legitimately see the filings, but I'm going to submit a notice of appeal.

A public allegation of judicial disregard of filings, stated as uncertainty rather than as established fact (“I don't know whether”), paired with an announced appeal. The same “judge is ignoring my filings” theory appears in the videos “California Judge IGNORES HALD BLIND PRO SE LITIGANT” and “California Judge ABUSES BLIND PATIENT to Defend Doctor” about the same California proceeding — cross-video repetition of an allegation, not corroboration of it.

Why this classification: Says he will submit a notice of appeal, leaving open whether the judge ignored his filings or never saw them.

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Judge FRAUDULENTLY Dismissed my Case · October 17, 2025

Well, I already did. I submitted a notice of appeal. I showed, hey, this case management statement was submitted back in July. Why are you dismissing my case? It's it's just a completely ridiculous dismissal.

States that an appeal had already been filed at publication. C101's record documents multiple notices of appeal in this period (a Sept. 29, 2025 notice → appeal B350018, dismissed with remittitur Mar. 25, 2026; a July 29, 2025 notice → B348769). This video does not identify which one, and this research does not resolve it.

Why this classification: Confirms the notice of appeal was filed and disputes the dismissal, pointing to the July case management statement. An appeal within the same case, not a fresh action.

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Is your Doctors Reputation LEGIT!? · November 22, 2025

And when I look at, you know, Dr. Toban's practice versus Dr. Douglas's practice versus this Japan doctor's practice, those that me explaining the difference between their staff, their employees, their building, how they operate and run things is enough for me is enough for me to understand why this Japan doctor was able to actually fix my eyes.

Names the surgeon at the centre of the tracked medical litigation in a comparison of surgical practices; the captions spell the surname differently and it resolves only on correction. The comparison is adverse by implication, but he alleges no specific wrongdoing here and describes no filing.

Why this classification: A tracked party is named on the transcript rather than only in the title, but the statement is a comparison of practices, identifies none of the three actions he is party to, and describes no filing.

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Doctors, Lawyers, Judges ARE ALL IN ON IT · November 27, 2025

Beverly Hills. What is the significance of Beverly Hills in surgery? Think of the court system. There's a whole state court system with multiple Los Angeles branches. This whole system is set up, the judges are bought and paid for. The lawyers are bought and paid for.

Though framed as commentary on an industry, it names Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles state court system — the forum of C101/C102 (Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al., Superior Court of California, LA County; both case numbers carry the SMCV Santa Monica prefix). Less case-specific than the other two videos, but not forum-neutral either.

Why this classification: Describes the Los Angeles court system as one in which judges and lawyers are bought and paid for.

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CA State Law WRITTEN TO SCREW PATIENTS · November 29, 2025

The highest amount of money you can be compensated for in a non-death case is $350,000. And if you die, it's $500,000. How insane is that? The only reason I'm able to sue for way more is because I have a business. And I'm basically saying, "Okay, if I ran my business for 30 more years and made a hundred million dollars, that's that's basically what I'm saying. Because I have a business and I'm no longer able to run the business, I'm going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in my lifetime. I'm able to do that.

The speaker's own damages theory for a California medical claim: he describes the statutory cap and says his business losses are the route by which he can claim past it, quantified at hundreds of millions of dollars over his lifetime. The cap figures are his characterisation of California law, not anything awarded to him, and no case, court or defendant is named.

Why this classification: Describes how he frames his own claim in a tracked dispute, which bears on litigation conduct, but the case link rests on subject matter alone and the sentence announces, threatens and confirms no filing.

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It is NOT SAFE to get ANY SURGERY · December 4, 2025

I filed for disability with New York State. It's been 2 years. I've had to sue the Social Security Administration. I have an active lawsuit against the doctor that botched me and they're just dragging it on and on.

Two separate filings confirmed in his own words, one of them against a defendant he names verbatim. The Social Security suit maps to the tracked New York action, which was filed 2025-07-02 and pending at publication; the doctor is never named, so the two California actions are a dataset-derived inference. The framing that he has had to sue, and the complaint that the doctor's case is being drawn out, are both worth preserving as spoken.

Why this classification: He confirms two existing actions rather than a repeat filing, a new action after an adverse decision, or a cost-imposition motive; the delay he complains of is not an adverse ruling, and he describes two distinct matters rather than a refiling, so no core factor applies and the case identification is inferred rather than stated.

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Corrupt Court System is a PATHETIC JOKE · December 21, 2025

it's completely destroyed my life and financial situation. And from what I've seen, it's, you know, minimum of a few million dollars for being partially blind, permanently disabled, and having to undergo almost 10 surgeries under anesthesia.

A materially different damages figure from the same dispute. The batch-7 archive for “Tufano v. Taban et al 3:25-cv-00011” (2025-02-08) records C046's complaint as demanding $485 million, split 33/33/33. Ten months later he describes the claim's worth as "minimum of a few million." Both are his own public statements about the same injury. Worth recording precisely because a promotion pass should not average or reconcile them — the variance is itself the datum.

Why this classification: States the damages he considers warranted — a minimum of a few million — against partial blindness, permanent disability and repeated surgeries.

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Corrupt Court System is a PATHETIC JOKE · December 21, 2025

And the federal case seems to be okay. Like, the judge isn't completely crooked. But since the start, this state court judge has been out to get me.

A rare non-adverse statement about a court, and useful for exactly that reason — it shows the criticism is forum-specific rather than uniform, and it dates a point (2025-12-21) at which he still regarded the federal Taban case (C046) as proceeding fairly. C046 was decided against him eight months later, and “Why you CANT WIN a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit!!!” (2026-07-06) shows the federal framing had turned by then. A useful anchor for any chronology of his stated attitude toward each forum.

Why this classification: Contrasts the federal judge, whom he does not fault, with the state judge he says has been 'out to get me' from the start.

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Corrupt Court System is a PATHETIC JOKE · December 21, 2025

So, every single time, like in December, right after I filed the case, I had strabismas [strabismus] surgery and the defendants filed opposition. I was unable to respond to it. The judge granted whatever. Then in May, I had to go to another I had to undergo orbital reconstruction in Los Angeles. Same thing happened. Then in December uh November of this year, I went to undergo another surgery.

Three specific, docket-checkable instances of a claimed pattern — surgery rendering him unable to respond, an unopposed defense filing, and an adverse ruling. Each has a month attached (December, May, November 2025) and the second names the procedure and city. This is the most concrete account in this research of why filings went unanswered in the California state matters, and it is directly checkable against C101/C102's docket and against the batch-6 finding that C101 was dismissed for failure to file a case-management statement. It also bears on the recurring question of whether non-responses were inability or default.

Why this classification: Lines up three surgeries against filing deadlines — opposition filed just after he filed the case, no response possible, rulings entered against him each time.

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STILL BOTCHED AND DISABLED by Dr. Taban after 2 Years · January 21, 2026

So, it's been two years and two months since I was botched by Dr. Tabon. I've had seven corrective procedures under anesthesia now. Three full orbital reconstructions

Names the surgeon in the transcript itself, as the caption spelling Dr. Tabon, and gives a first-person count of seven corrective procedures and three orbital reconstructions over two years and two months. Damages and treatment background for the tracked medical dispute; the identification is not imported from the video title.

Why this classification: Names a tracked defendant and supplies dated injury background for a tracked dispute, but no case, court or ruling is identified and no filing conduct is described.

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STILL BOTCHED AND DISABLED by Dr. Taban after 2 Years · January 21, 2026

and the state is refusing to pay me disability. The corrupt court system has protected this doctor and I have not been reimbursed

In one sentence he reports that he has not been reimbursed after multiple proceedings and alleges that the court system has protected the doctor. The tracked record is consistent with the first half, but the characterisation of the courts is his own and is not a judicial finding. The reference to the state refusing disability concerns a benefit decision, not any tracked case.

Why this classification: Reports an adverse result and alleges the forum protected the opposing party, which are both docket-adjacent facts and attitudes rather than conduct; he describes no new or repeat filing, so no core factor applies.

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Beverly Hills Lawyers WILL PROTECT BUTCHERS · February 7, 2026

after contacting every single medical malpractice lawyer in the state of California, only one of them reciprocated. And he just took a few thousand, got a doctor to write me an opinion where the doctor misspelled my name and gave me some false BS.

A first-person account of the expert-opinion problem in the surgery malpractice thread: only one California malpractice lawyer responded, took a few thousand dollars, and obtained a doctor's opinion he regarded as worthless. It was published roughly six months before the docket turned on expert disclosure.

Why this classification: It is a party statement about the history of his own representation in a tracked dispute rather than about any filing he made; no lawyer, firm, court or case is named, so the link rests on subject matter.

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Is Dr. Taban STILL BOTCHING?! · April 9, 2026

I actually do have a paid employee out there doing this right now. And what upset me was he's still booked out till June.

A present-tense statement that he is paying an employee to conduct an in-person leafleting campaign outside the practice of the surgeon who is a defendant in tracked actions, together with his complaint that the surgeon remains booked out for months.

Why this classification: Records ongoing out-of-court pressure activity aimed at a tracked defendant, which bears on conduct in the dispute, but leafleting is not filing and the statement describes no filing behaviour and identifies no case.

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Is Dr. Taban STILL BOTCHING?! · April 9, 2026

The question is, what can we do to make sure I get compensated? You know, how many years do I have to make videos about this guy?

States compensation as the object and identifies the video campaign, rather than any filing, as the instrument he is relying on to obtain it. Relevant to how he frames the purpose of the wider campaign around the eye-surgery dispute.

Why this classification: Names the objective and the means, but the means he identifies is publicity rather than litigation, and the statement announces, threatens and reports no filing.

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Is Dr. Taban STILL BOTCHING?! · April 9, 2026

But what I can say is if you contribute to me being compensated by these evil lunatics, I will pay you. Whether it's 10, 20, $30,000, $50,000, when I get my check, who knows when that's going to be. At some point, these people are going to have to compensate me for at least several million dollars.

A stated expectation of at least several million dollars in eventual compensation for the eye-surgery dispute, plus a public offer to pay viewers a share of any recovery if they help him obtain it. Both are the speaker's own characterisations, not a pleaded figure and not a court finding.

Why this classification: Gives a damages expectation and an unusual recruitment offer bearing on how the campaign is resourced, but no case is identified and no filing conduct is described.

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Is Dr. Taban STILL BOTCHING?! · April 9, 2026

But I don't trust the court system at all. All these court cases, all these judges, what there's no legitimacy to any of it. And I don't expect the court system to compensate me. All the doctors are crooked. All the law firms are crooked. All the courts are crooked.

A blanket statement that he does not trust the court system, that his court cases and the judges hearing them lack legitimacy, and that he does not expect the courts to compensate him. Recorded as a public statement about the forum; no court has found anything of the kind.

Why this classification: Alleges that the forums handling his own cases are illegitimate, made while referring to those cases as his own, but it reports no ruling and describes no filing conduct, so no core factor applies.

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Dr. Taban STOLE MY EMPLOYEE?! 🤣 · April 16, 2026

So, Dr. Tobond makes me blind, disabled, and disfigured. And I call up every lawyer in California. Not one of them wants to help me. I filed the court case myself, and the judges just throw out the cases, all corrupt as you could ever imagine. So, I figure I have to make this as public as possible.

Gives the origin of the speaker's pro se posture: no California lawyer would take the case, so he filed it himself. He then reports that the judges threw the cases out, in the plural, attributes that to judicial corruption, and gives it as his reason for taking the dispute public.

Why this classification: Confirms self-filed litigation and multiple adverse outcomes in the same breath, but names no case number and no court, and what it reports is the courts' conduct rather than a repeat filing of his own, so it holds at Moderate.

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Turkey Pet Food! Quiche & Prosciutto Pizza! Equipment! FREE RANGE MEAT VLOG · June 6, 2026

my prices are so low. It's, you know, part of the reason that, you know, I'm having these financial issues. But the same thing could be said about the all these people stealing money from me and taking advantage of me. Like if none of that ever happened, I'd be in if I never got botched by Dr. Jabon [inaudible/unclear: "Dr. Taban"?], I'd be in a perfectly fine financial situation. But, you know, so it's hard for me to say it's far it's really, you know, that's why I never blame myself or, you know, try to say what can I do better because I really tried my best and it's all

The most explicit causation statement about the eye-surgery dispute in the archive: he names the surgeon, whose surname the captions garble, and asserts that but for the surgery he would be in a sound financial position, tying that grievance directly to the state of his business.

Why this classification: It names a tracked party and states the damages causation for a tracked dispute in his own unprompted words in the middle of a store vlog, but it describes no filing conduct of any kind and names no case, court or docket.

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Disabled after 8 Revision Surgeries FROM EYE PLASTIC SURGERY · July 9, 2026

Since I was botched in November 2023 by Dr. Tobon, it's like two years and seven, eight months now. I've undergone eight revision procedures to fix my eyes and I've been put on disability by the government.

Three checkable assertions in one sentence: an index date of November 2023 for the procedure underlying the eye-surgery dispute, a count of eight revision procedures, and a claim that he has been granted government disability. The date corroborates what the tracked pleadings are recorded as alleging; the disability claim is in tension with the tracked Social Security action, which is recorded as alleging a wrongful denial, and the archive does not resolve that tension.

Why this classification: It supplies a dated index event, a procedure count and a benefits claim for a tracked dispute, and names the surgeon, but it describes injury and status rather than any filing conduct, and identifies no case, court or docket. The disability assertion is recorded as a party statement, not as a fact about his benefits.

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Did Paul Saladino have TABAN BOTCH ME?! · August 23, 2026

so if I go get a surgery with a doctor that's in the club. Are they going to do some sketchy stuff and botch me on purpose? And I think so

Recasts the medical claim at the centre of the eye-surgery dispute from negligence to intent. The recorded claims summary for C102 pleads professional negligence from the November 2023 procedure — so this public statement asserts something materially different from, and more serious than, what the tracked pleading alleges. That divergence between filed claim and public claim is the useful part.

Why this classification: Says he believes a connected surgeon would deliberately botch a procedure on him.

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Did Paul Saladino have TABAN BOTCH ME?! · August 23, 2026

the amount of tissue that Dr. Tobond removed from my eyes during an orbital decompression is like someone going in for a knee replacement and waking up with the wrong leg chopped half off.

Names the procedure — an orbital decompression — which corroborates the C102 claims summary's "November 2023 cosmetic-eye procedure" and its recorded allegation that the surgery left him "deformed" and "near blind." The comparison is his characterization of severity, not a clinical description.

Why this classification: Analogy conveying the extent of tissue removed during the orbital decompression.

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How long will the Tufano v. Taban WAR LAST?! · September 1, 2026

If this lunatic surgeon hasn't paid me now, I feel like he's willing to go down with the ship. And I've been willing to go down with the ship since the start. But, is this guy really willing to sacrifice basically the entire oculoplastic surgery community? Because I'm not just talking crap about him. I'm saying that none of these eye plastic surgeons know what they're doing. All the procedures are outdated and stone age nonsense and none of them look good. And when people see me getting botched and treated like this by these plastic surgeons, it applies to all surgery in general. It's not just Dr. Taban. It's not just oculoplastic eye surgery. It's hard maxing in general. It's all plastic surgery. It doesn't make any sense to me.

Names Dr. Taban directly (a tracked defendant in the eye-surgery dispute) and frames the dispute as an ongoing "war," including a claim that Taban "hasn't paid me" — a damages/settlement assertion that is not itself a court finding. Published the same day it was researched, so it is the most current public statement then on record about the state of the Taban litigation.

Why this classification: Names Dr. Taban, a tracked defendant in the eye-surgery dispute, and asserts he "hasn't paid me" while framing the dispute as an ongoing war, but the words describe damages and an industry grievance rather than any filing conduct.

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Healthy Organic What I Eat in a Day of Eating · September 13, 2026

hopefully Tobond [= Taban] pays me my $500 million soon and maybe we'll get back to regular YouTube videos.

The only point in the video where the expected payer is named. "Tobond" is a rendering already established in this dataset as the caption family for the surgeon — `video_statements.csv` carries it in VS204, VS259, VS275, VS303, VS304 and VS347, and `video_case_links.csv` records the caption spelling "Tabon" against C046 — canonicalised to Mehryar Ray Taban MD, **D0202**, under DSP001. The statement expresses an anticipated money recovery from that party and ties it to resuming regular uploads; it reports no filing, no court event and no adverse outcome, so it takes no filing-conduct factor. ⚠ The $500 million here disagrees with the $480 million at 7:53 in the same video and with the $485 million pleaded figure recorded at VS027. Recorded, not reconciled.

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