State action removed
Paul Saladino removed Lackawanna County case 26-cv-838 to M.D. Pa. as 3:26-cv-01266.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al
3:26-cv-01266 · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
Consolidated into C061; later final status check neededRemoved from state court; consolidatedPennsylvania
CourtU.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
FiledMay 11, 2026
StatusConsolidated into C061; later final status check needed
OutcomeRemoved from state court; consolidated
Final dispositionConsolidated into 3:26-cv-00396; final merits disposition not verified
JurisdictionPennsylvania
Pro seYes
Current / transferee courtU.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
Transferred case3:26-cv-00396 (consolidated master)
Last researchedAugust 23, 2026
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.
Originally filed by Tufano in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County (tracked separately as C032) and removed to federal court by defendant Paul Saladino, MD. Defendants are Paul Saladino, MD and Heart & Soil Supplements LLC. The federal docket lists the nature of suit as “Other Fraud” with a cause of action under 18 U.S.C. § 241.
The case was later consolidated with an earlier, related Tufano v. Saladino action (3:26-cv-00396, tracked as C061); the court denied Tufano's motion for default judgment as premature and separately ordered him to show cause why the matter should not be dismissed for failure to properly serve the defendants.
No excerpt of the underlying complaint's specific factual allegations could be independently located. The docket record could not be re-coded this pass; CourtListener/RECAP holds a shell with no coding fields ingested.
Sourcing limitation (23 Aug 2026): the complaint itself remains unread — no document on this docket is available through RECAP, and no published opinion exists for this case on GovInfo. The claims description above is therefore based on docket coding, not on the complaint's own text.
Defendants
Source record
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Outcome and research status
Outcome reason: Removed May 11, 2026 from Lackawanna County case 26-cv-838. On May 27 the court consolidated this action with 3:26-cv-00396 at the latter docket, denied Tufano's default-judgment motion as premature, and ordered him to show cause by June 5 regarding service.
Research status: Partially researched (CourtListener/RECAP docket record confirms docket, filing date and assigned judge; own docket entries unavailable -- PacerMonitor 429/403, Justia bot-challenge, DocketBird/Trellis 403, UniCourt 404)
Research notes: Filing 1 is a Notice of Removal from Lackawanna County 26-cv-838, so C074 is the same action as C032 after removal. It was later consolidated into separately filed C061. Update 2026-08-23: Final post-consolidation status still not verified. CourtListener/RECAP confirms C074 is assigned to Chief Magistrate Judge Daryl F. Bloom, as is the master case C061 (3:26-cv-00396). RECAP holds a docket shell with zero entries for C074, and PacerMonitor/Justia both refused. GovInfo has no published opinion package for either C074 or C061. A search-engine snippet appeared to reference a response to a report and recommendation filed 2026-07-06 and a proof of service filed 2026-07-31 on the C061 docket -- if accurate that would supply C074's final-status answer, but the underlying page could not be fetched and a search snippet is not a citable source, so it is recorded here as an unconfirmed lead only. Docket record: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73327066/
Related litigation
- Previous related case: 3:26-cv-00396 — Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al
- Same underlying action / other docket: 2026-00838 — Tufano v. Saladino
- Dispute group: Saladino-related litigation
Chronology events
Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
Federal actions consolidated
The court consolidated 3:26-cv-01266 into 3:26-cv-00396, denied Tufano's default-judgment motion as premature, and ordered him to show cause by June 5 why the matter should not be dismissed for failure to effect proper service.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Pennsylvania cross-forum relationships
Confirmed removalHigh
Filing 1 expressly removes Lackawanna County case 26-cv-838; on May 27 the removed federal action was consolidated into C061.
Federal source — dockets.justia.com ↗DocketBird research audit
Indexed DocketBird material is classified by record type and verification status. Party filings, tentative rulings and unresolved sanctions leads are not treated as court findings.
Case docket / consolidation orderMay 27, 2026
Removed Saladino action was consolidated into 3:26-cv-00396; Tufano's default-judgment motion was denied as premature and he was ordered to show cause by June 5 regarding service.
Evidentiary treatment: Court procedural order; already reflected in C061/C074 chronology.
Verification: Cross-checked
DocketBird — docketbird.com ↗Cross-check — courtlistener.com ↗Related video research
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Cite this page
Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al (3:26-cv-01266)". Research last verified August 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/3-26-cv-01266-tufano-v-saladino-md-et-al/