Tufano filed C048 against Saladino and others alleging, among other things, that Saladino copied his work.
Source — govinfo.gov ↗Tufano v. Saladino et al
3:25-cv-00262 · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
About this case
Evidentiary treatment: This summarizes the plaintiff's own allegations as stated in the complaint or docket record cited below. It reflects what was filed, not a court finding, and is not a determination that the allegations are true.
Plaintiff alleges that Paul Saladino, M.D. copied and used his diet and nutrition research and ideas without credit on social media, generating substantial views and revenue for Saladino, and that Saladino conspired secretly with codefendant Jeffrey Davis, Esq. (Tufano's own attorney in a related prior Southern District of New York action Saladino brought against him), a Freemason lodge, and “the Illuminati” to secure adverse rulings against him in that earlier litigation.
As recited by the court, the complaint pleads civil conspiracy under Pennsylvania law and a claim under 18 U.S.C. § 241; the specific relief requested is not detailed in the source document, beyond redress for the alleged conspiracy. This is the earliest-filed of three near-identical Saladino suits (see also C055, C059).
Defendants
Source record
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Outcome and research status
Outcome reason: Complaint had been recommended for dismissal for failure to state a claim with leave to amend. The district court granted leave to amend; Tufano did not amend, and the case was dismissed without prejudice.
Research status: Source-backed via later R&R
Research notes: The C055 R&R describes C048 as the first of a trilogy of cases raising essentially the same claims against the same defendants.
Related litigation
- Dispute group: Saladino-related litigation
Chronology events
Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
After an R&R recommended dismissal and leave to correct deficiencies was granted, Tufano did not file an amended complaint; C048 was dismissed without prejudice.
Source — govinfo.gov ↗Tufano filed C055 naming substantially the same defendants.
Source — govinfo.gov ↗District court adopted the R&R and dismissed C055 with prejudice.
Source — govinfo.gov ↗Secondary sources
Commentary from former counsel or other secondary sources is retained separately from court findings and primary-source records.
Davis summarizes the representation/default chronology in C100 and points readers to the Jan. 29, 2026 Opinion & Order. The underlying court record independently confirms counsel was relieved Feb. 23, 2021, no answer was filed, default followed, and the earlier motion to vacate default was denied after the court found willful default and no meritorious defense.
Evidentiary treatment: Blog commentary is secondary. Court findings about default, motions, and representation are recorded in COURT_FINDINGS only where supported by the court opinions/docket.
Secondary source — daviscantor.com ↗Public video statements
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Uh I guess we'll find out what happens with the Saladin court case. Well, technically I already tried it once. I filed that case like five or six months ago and the judge dismissed it for failure to state a claim or something and then like I appealed it. It went to court of appeals. They didn't mail me the paperwork and then they dismissed it because I didn't pay the court fee or something. So, I had to refile it.
This is the speaker's own first-person account of the sequence the tracker records as a repeat-filing pair. He names the dispute ("the Saladin[o] court case"), dates his first attempt ("five or six months ago"), states the ground of dismissal ("failure to state a claim"), states that the appeal was itself dismissed on a fee/notice failure, and says he refiled as a result. Every element is checkable against the docket data and every element matches: C048 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00262) was filed 2025-02-12 — 5.6 months before this video published — and dismissed 2025-06-11 after an R&R recommended dismissal for failure to state a claim with leave to amend that he did not use. C055 (3:25-cv-01400) was filed 2025-07-29, two days before publication, and carries previous_related_case_id: C048 and refiling_of_prior_case: Yes. The appellate leg he describes is not currently in the tracker's C048 row and is a research lead. The dismissal-to-refiling core factor is satisfied by the new action, not by the appeal: the appeal is the ordinary appellate remedy and is expressly excluded by the factor's definition. The Strong tier rests on the refiling.
Source removed. Quoted at 12:55 in the archived transcript. Play at 12:30 in this project’s compilation ↗
so myself and the baltic psychopath popularized eating raw meat for health many years ago on youtube however i added the science and research behind it and dozens and dozens and dozens of educational videos rad boy is the first culprit basically uh 45 year old reject weirdo repeating every word that comes out of my mouth
A self-dated priority claim ("popularized … many years ago", "i added the science and research") attached to a named target. rad boy is the caption's form of the nickname established elsewhere in the archive as Paul Saladino — tasS38BpOPw (2022-02-22) and IpqDPRxwzc4 (2022-04-07), the latter using both the nickname and the legal name. Saladino is a tracked party many times over: the plaintiff in C100 (Saladino, MD v. Frank Tufano, S.D.N.Y., filed 2020-11-07) and a defendant in the DSP003 group and in C036/C068. The grievance stated here — that Saladino copied his diet and nutrition ideas without credit — is the grievance pleaded in C048 (Tufano v. Saladino et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2025-02-12), whose claims summary recites exactly that. Interval computed in code: 2022-02-04 (publish) to 2025-02-12 (C048 filed) = 1,104 days. No filing is announced, threatened or described here, so no filing-conduct factor applies. ⚠ The identification runs through a nickname, not a name; it is inherited from two other archive files, not established in this one. Possible case/dispute link: C048 / DSP003 as pre-filing grievance context only — tentative, and written from the transcript, not the title. No adjacency stronger than "he described this grievance publicly 1,104 days before the case that pleads it" is supported.
Source removed. Quoted at 00:56 in the archived transcript.
but this guy liver king has gotten very popular on instagram and tiktok of course i can't do anything about it you know the second i point out the plagiarism and copycatting and how much the carnivore diet ruined my health i get instantly banned for harassment and bullying
This is the window's dominant pattern in its sharpest form — a fully articulated grievance against named targets, with the speaker expressly stating he has no remedy: "of course i can't do anything about it". The only recourse he names is complaining publicly, which he says gets him banned. No suit, no lawyer, no demand, no threat of a filing. The same grievance against the same two subjects reappears in the dataset at VS1124 (video LJvTWfJhbek, 2024-02-05) in a materially different posture — there he has "spoke to a patent lawyer and there's basically nothing preventing these corporate suckers from just copying my idea" — counsel consulted, still no remedy. This file records the earlier, pre-counsel form of the same non-filing. ⚠ All of it predates the 2025-01-30 injunction on this class of statement, so it is pre-injunction conduct, not a violation, and must not be framed otherwise. Interval computed in code: 2022-02-04 (publish) to 2025-01-30 (injunction) = 1,091 days. Possible case/dispute link: C048 / DSP003 as pre-filing grievance context only — tentative. The Liver King half of the grievance links to no tracked party at all (see the research notes archived for this video).
Source removed. Quoted at 01:16 in the archived transcript.
the logo for liver king's company is literally a masonic compass and the logo for ratboy's company is a baphomet skull
The C048 claims summary records that the complaint pleads Saladino "conspired secretly with codefendant Jeffrey Davis, Esq. … a Freemason lodge, and 'the Illuminati'", and the DSP003 defendant lists name White Plains Lodge #473, Union Lodge #291 and The Illuminati as parties. This passage attaches masonic and occult iconography to Saladino on camera 1,104 days before that complaint was filed (2022-02-04 to 2025-02-12, computed in code) — as a remark about a company logo, not yet as a conspiracy claim. Within the archive as it currently stands this is the earliest instance of that iconography found so far, as of batch 51, bounded by the sweep frontier at 2021-12-28: the next-earliest archived masonic/baphomet/freemason mention is IfuvIsC34yc (2022-06-10), 126 days later (2022-02-04 to 2022-06-10, computed in code). No filing conduct is described. Possible case/dispute link: DSP003 / C048 as pre-filing thematic context only — tentative and unconfirmed. This is not evidence of the pleaded conspiracy and must not be promoted as such; it is evidence of when the imagery first appears attached to the person.
Source removed. Quoted at 01:42 in the archived transcript.
what actually triggered this was uh some more uh bot spam on my comments that didn't go through from you know these people that have been harassing me ever since the rat started plagiarizing my videos so i'm not going to name them i'm not going to say specific things because last time i did that the video was taken down
Dates his own account of the grievance he later pleads to 2022-05-13. The complaint in C048 (Tufano v. Saladino et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2025-02-12) is recited by the court as alleging that the defendant "copied and used his diet and nutrition research and ideas without credit on social media" — which is this grievance, stated here 1,006 days before that case was filed (2022-05-13 → 2025-02-12, computed in code). It also records that a prior video was taken down after he named someone, which is his stated reason for not naming anyone here — so the absence of a name in this file is a documented editorial choice, not an absence of a target. ⚠ No filing, threatened or made, appears anywhere in this passage; he describes a grievance and a platform removal, not litigation. Possible case/dispute link: DSP003 and, prospectively, C048 / C055 / C059 (tentative, unconfirmed — identified by nickname and grievance, never by name or docket; see the rat boy note below).
Source removed. Quoted at 00:32 in the archived transcript.
landlord is still trying to evict us in court and everyone including my own lawyer seems to be on the side of the jerk off secret society members and you know the continued censorship of my YouTube channel
Three separate things in one sentence, and only one of them is a filing-restriction factor. (1) An eviction proceeding against him is live on 2022-10-25 — direction trap 1 applies squarely: the landlord is the moving party, so this is not a filing by him and cannot support any filing factor. (2) He alleges that the participants in that proceeding, including his own retained lawyer, are aligned with "secret society members" against him. That is an allegation that the forum is not honestly disposed toward him, which is what Judicial or forum bias alleged covers; it is a research classification of what he said, never a finding about any court, lawyer or organisation. (3) The YouTube-censorship grievance is restated. The tier is Moderate rather than Strong because no factor here is a core factor, no case is named, and the eviction matter resolves to no row in any of the 23 CSVs. Possible case/dispute link: Not found in aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv (case_title or defendants), disputes.csv, research_notes.csv or litigation_timeline.csv — the strings landlord and evict return zero across all 23 CSVs, so the eviction proceeding is unresolved, not untracked. No landlord, court or docket is named on camera either. Separately, the "secret society" framing later becomes a pleaded theory in several tracked actions (C038, C048, C059, C035/C063/C066, and aliases.csv carries Beverly Hills Masonic Lodge D0043 and Free and Accepted Masons of Union Lodge No 291 D0108), but he names nobody here, so direction trap 5 applies and no party link is licensed.
Source removed. Quoted at 05:20 in the archived transcript.
people started copying me plagiarizing my ideas and all that type of stuff and kind of twisting my information to sell their own stuff that's where I started looking at it and getting more irritated and just overall disappointed in in how everything else was going but hopefully I can continue to change that over the next few years the real thing that kind of makes me upset is that I'm really no longer able to just say everything I know and just give it out there because of what's happened so you know less people are able to improve their health because when I do that then someone just copies it and they censor me and they get all the credit for it
This is the grievance later pleaded in DSP003 — plagiarism of his diet research, by someone who then profits from it and gets the credit — articulated on camera on 2022-11-09, 826 days before C048 (Tufano v. Saladino et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2025-02-12), 993 days before C055 and 1,073 days before C059, all intervals computed in code. research_notes.csv records that those three near-identical complaints allege Paul Saladino "plagiarized his Carnivore Diet research without attribution and profited from it". The grievance shape matches exactly. What the transcript does not do is name anybody: he says "people", "someone", "influencers trying to make a profit". ⚠ Direction trap 5 (right grievance, possibly wrong party) is live here — a matching grievance licenses no party link, and this quote supports none. It also describes no filing, no threat to file, no court, and no adverse decision; it is a statement of motive, dated. Possible case/dispute link: DSP003 (C048 / C055 / C059) on grievance shape only — tentative and unconfirmed, with no party named in the transcript. ⚠ Note also the direction of the earlier proceeding the same dispute concerns: research_notes.csv records Saladino v. Tufano, No. 7:20-cv-9346 (S.D.N.Y., 2020) — a case brought against him, already two years old when this was recorded. Nothing in this transcript refers to it.
Source removed. Quoted at 01:42 in the archived transcript.
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Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Saladino et al (3:25-cv-00262)". Research last verified September 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/3-25-cv-00262-tufano-v-saladino-et-al/