Case research · C081

Tufano v. Miller et al

3:26-cv-02134 · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania

Pending; complaint filed and summons issued, no response or order docketedPennsylvania
CourtU.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
FiledJuly 29, 2026
StatusPending; complaint filed and summons issued, no response or order docketed
Outcome
Final disposition
JurisdictionPennsylvania
Pro se
Current / transferee court
Transferred case
Last researchedSeptember 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.

Plaintiff sued Amos Miller, Fox News Network LLC, GiveSendGo LLC, GoFundMe Inc., Off Grid with Doug and Stacy LLC, Riverside Homestead Life LLC, and Maple Leaf Media LLC. The docket lists the nature of suit as “Assault Libel & Slander” with a diversity-jurisdiction cause of action for libel, assault, and slander. The mix of defendants — a farmer, a news network, two crowdfunding platforms, and media/content producers — suggests the claims concern allegedly defamatory statements made about Tufano in connection with coverage of, or fundraising tied to, the Amos Miller raw-dairy-farming dispute.

No excerpt of the complaint's specific factual allegations could be independently located. CourtListener/RECAP confirms the docket coding: claims pleaded in diversity under 28 U.S.C. 1332 for libel, assault and slander (nature of suit 320) against all seven defendants jointly, with a jury demand by the plaintiff. The direct complaint comparison with C041 remains unmade — RECAP holds the docket entry text but not the complaint document, so this case must still not be described as raising claims identical to C041.

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.

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Defendants

Source record

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Outcome and research status

Research status: Source-backed (CourtListener/RECAP docket snapshot)

Research notes: Update 2026-08-23: Assigned to Magistrate Judge Leo A. Latella. CourtListener/RECAP shows three opening docket entries, all 2026-07-29 (complaint with civil cover sheet, summons issued, pro se letter), and nothing after. Nature of suit 320 Assault Libel and Slander; cause 28:1332 Diversity-Libel/Assault/Slander; jurisdiction Diversity. All seven 2026-07-29 filings (3:26-cv-02132 through 3:26-cv-02138) were fee-paid at $405 under a single shared receipt number 333120943, not filed in forma pauperis, so no 28 U.S.C. 1915(e)(2) screening track applies; they were assigned across five different magistrate judges with no consolidation and no common screening order. RECAP mirrors only what a PACER user has already fetched, so the absence of later entries is not affirmative proof of docket inactivity. No published opinion exists for this case on GovInfo (verified against a working control). Docket record: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73689319/ Update 2026-09-23: Docket metadata confirms the assigned judge as Judge Leo A. Latella. No other change; the docket is unmoved since the last pass.

Related litigation

Filing-restriction indicators

Strength labels are research classifications, not judicial declarations that the litigant is vexatious.

ContextNew complaint filed against same core defendants after related case's frivolous dismissal with prejudice

C081 (M.D. Pa., filed 2026-07-29) names the identical seven-defendant caption as the dismissed C041, filed roughly 19 months after C041 was dismissed with prejudice on frivolous/meritless grounds. As of 2026-08-23 the docket is confirmed via CourtListener/RECAP -- Magistrate Judge Leo A. Latella, nature of suit 320 Assault Libel and Slander, cause 28:1332, fee-paid at $405 -- with three opening entries and no response or order docketed. The complaint itself remains unavailable, so the direct comparison of C081's claims against C041's has still not been made and must not be asserted.

No adjudication yet; docket-confirmed filing only -- C081's docket, judge and coding are confirmed as of 2026-08-23 but its complaint has not been read.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗

Chronology events

Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.

New complaint filed after prior adverse decision

Tufano filed C081 in M.D. Pa. against the identical seven-defendant caption named in the dismissed C041, roughly 19 months after C041 was dismissed with prejudice on frivolous/meritless grounds. As of 2026-08-23 C081's docket is confirmed (filed 2026-07-29, Magistrate Judge Leo A. Latella, nature of suit 320 Assault Libel and Slander, cause 28:1332, fee-paid at $405 rather than in forma pauperis), and three opening entries appear with no response or order docketed. The complaint itself remains unread, so no direct comparison of C081's claims with C041's has been made.

Miller repeated-litigation chronology · Federal docketSource — courtlistener.com ↗

Pennsylvania cross-forum relationships

Later federal filing with overlapping Miller defendantsMedium

Later federal Miller action again names Amos Miller, Fox News and GiveSendGo among defendants.

Same action: No · Yes - verified via direct LPA Prothonotary portal lookup (C001)

Federal source — dockets.justia.com ↗

Public video statements

Public statements are displayed separately from court findings. Quotations are transcribed from the video’s own YouTube auto-generated captions and timestamped from the caption cues covering the passage quoted. The Strong / Moderate / Context tier is this project’s research classification of how closely a statement bears on the documented filing patterns — it is not a judicial finding. Any second badge names the filing-restriction factor the statement’s own words describe; it records what the speaker said, not that a court found it.

How quotations are marked: An ellipsis (…) inside a quotation marks words left out between two passages of the same video, which can sit some minutes apart. The omitted wording is not reproduced here, and a clip on the statement supercut plays the whole span from the quotation’s first word to its last — so it includes the omitted material. Quotations without an ellipsis are continuous speech.

Dispute background statement
Moderate pattern relevance01:15

Chicken is back! Fresh Beef! Naturals Sale! KRATOM!? Free Range Meat Vlog · May 20, 2024

last week we had a department of a come in and inspect uh you guys know like Mr scammer Miller nonsense uh well he didn't want Department of a to do an inspection so he denied him and then they had to get a warrant and inspect his farm so me we passed our department of a inspection with flying colors no Fox News main page with a $300,000 GoFundMe for Frankie boy huh right I guess that's what happened when you uh I guess that's what happens when you do things a legitimate way

This is the Miller-dispute theory of the case, with the defendant named, 49 days before C041 and 106 days before C001. C041's claims summary pleads that Amos Miller and "several YouTube-based media outlets, later amplified by Fox News Network, mischaracterized an unrelated, year-old incident at Miller's farm as an active 'raid,' diverting public sympathy and customers away from Tufano toward Miller", and that "Miller solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars through GiveSendGo and GoFundMe campaigns." Every load-bearing element of that pleading is in this thirty-three-second passage: the regulator, the enforcement action against Miller's farm, Fox News, the GoFundMe, and the diversion-of-sympathy framing — stated as grievance, with no lawsuit, court, lawyer or filing mentioned anywhere in the video. No filing-conduct factor is correct and is the point: this is the grievance in its pre-litigation state.

Transcript-verified verbatim quote

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Dispute background statement
Moderate pattern relevance11:33

I got Orbital Reconstruction · May 12, 2025

um that it's the same website that um that Amos Miller fraudulently got $300,000 in donations when he faked he faked his farm getting raided by the USDA and then he got $300,000 in donations. Basically stole people's money. Yeah. Here I am sitting with my eyes gouged out half blind and I got 20 bucks.

This restates, on camera, the substance of what C001/C041 plead — that Miller solicited donations through GiveSendGo on an exaggerated account of a raid on his farm, with C001 seeking "no less than $300,000". It is delivered as an aside about his own fundraiser, not as commentary on a case: no court, docket or filing is mentioned, and the federal version (C041) had already been dismissed with prejudice five months earlier.

Transcript-verified verbatim quote

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Moderate pattern relevance00:00

GiveSendGo and GoFundMe ARE FAKE!!! · June 7, 2025

This is why you should never donate money online to anyone, especially if they're getting a lot of views. Because the elite secret society members, these people control all online platforms and they only funnel money to themselves. If you're not in the club, regardless of what happens to you, they won't let you raise money.

The Miller-related grievance in its general form. It is near-verbatim the framing already recorded from another video — "all these websites are for people in the club, members of the elite … if you're not part of them, they will ban your campaign" — and in two further researched statements. This video is another dated instance of the same statement; its value is chronological, not novel content.

Transcript-verified verbatim quote

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Moderate pattern relevance00:41

GiveSendGo and GoFundMe ARE FAKE!!! · June 7, 2025

When these clowns like Amos Miller pretend they got raided by the USDA and raised $300,000, he stole $300,000 from people and people feel bad for him. No one knows the truth.

The only named party in the video, and he is tracked: Amos Miller is a defendant in C001 (Tufano v. Miller, Lackawanna 2024-06106, filed 2024-09-03, pending), C041 (Tufano v. Miller et al, M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01117, filed 2024-07-08, dismissed) and C081 (M.D. Pa. 3:26-cv-02134, filed 2026-07-29) — all part of the Miller-related dispute group, described in the dispute-group record as "repeated litigation involving Amos Miller and associated fundraising/media defendants," whose defendant roster in all three actions is the identical seven names including GiveSendGo LLC and GoFundMe Inc. The quote also states the grievance theory behind that group in a way the case records do not: that a rival raised money through crowdfunding while his own campaigns were removed. Miller is a tracked party, so the name is not withheld. This research takes no position on whether the theft allegation is true; no source for it is offered on camera.

Transcript-verified verbatim quote

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Dispute background statement
Moderate pattern relevance00:00

Donation Websites are only for “Elite” · December 21, 2025

Some of you guys commented to make a GoFundMe, but I have in the past and they always take it down. Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Gibson Go, all these websites are for people in the club, members of the elite. These websites funnel money to those people and if you're not part of them, they will ban your campaign.

Names GoFundMe and, through a caption garble corrected in research, GiveSendGo, both tracked defendants, and alleges that crowdfunding platforms ban the campaigns of people outside a favoured group. It states the underlying grievance between a federal dismissal and a later action against the same lineup.

Why this classification: Moderate because two tracked defendants are named and the grievance matches what those cases plead, while no filing, court, case or lawyer is mentioned anywhere in the video and no filing conduct is described.

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Moderate pattern relevance00:00

Help Save Frankie’s Free Range Meat · January 7, 2026

A lot of you offer to help, so I made a donation page. If you go to savefrankies.com, uh you can donate any amount you'd like. Uh we tried using G sendo gofundme in the past, but they always take down my donation campaigns for no reason.

Names GoFundMe, a tracked defendant, and alleges a pattern of donation campaigns being taken down, with fundraising moved to a self-hosted page as a result. It describes the counterparty's conduct rather than any filing of his own.

Why this classification: Moderate because a tracked defendant is named in the speaker's own words and the grievance matches what two tracked cases plead, but no case, court or docket is mentioned and no filing conduct is described. The second platform name is garbled in the captions, so the identification is subject-matter only.

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Moderate pattern relevance00:00

GoFundMe BANS ME!!! · March 24, 2026

We try to, they take it down after a few hours. All of these websites are owned by the same people who want me out of business. And the only people that are allowed to use these donation websites are in the club. So, anytime you see someone successfully using a donation website, you should think twice.

A dated statement of the fundraising-takedown grievance that later becomes a pleaded claim, made roughly four months before GoFundMe Inc. was named as a defendant. The viewer comment he reads aloud immediately before this passage is not part of the quote.

Why this classification: It states the grievance before any filing on it, which fixes the chronology, but it describes no filing conduct at all and names no case, court or docket.

Transcript-verified verbatim quote

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Related video research

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Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Miller et al (3:26-cv-02134)". Research last verified September 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/3-26-cv-02134-tufano-v-miller-et-al/