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Case research · C110

Tufano v. Google LLC

3:26-cv-02977 · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania

Pending; complaint filed Oct. 6, 2026 against Google LLC, Alphabet Inc., Richard Burgess and Vegan Gains, and assigned to Magistrate Judge Phillip J. Caraballo. An emergency request for a writ of seizure and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order were filed the same day, and a notice filed by the plaintiff records that emergency status was denied by verbal order. An application to proceed in forma pauperis is undecided and no defendant has responded.Pennsylvania
CourtU.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
FiledOctober 6, 2026
StatusPending; complaint filed Oct. 6, 2026 against Google LLC, Alphabet Inc., Richard Burgess and Vegan Gains, and assigned to Magistrate Judge Phillip J. Caraballo. An emergency request for a writ of seizure and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order were filed the same day, and a notice filed by the plaintiff records that emergency status was denied by verbal order. An application to proceed in forma pauperis is undecided and no defendant has responded.
Outcome—
Final disposition—
JurisdictionPennsylvania
Pro seYes
Current / transferee court—
Transferred case—
Last researchedOctober 7, 2026

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Outcome and research status

Research status: Source-backed docket metadata only (CourtListener docket 74926584; the complete seven-entry list was read Oct. 7, 2026). No document on the docket is available through the free federal archive.

Research notes: Discovered Oct. 7, 2026 by the same nationwide sweep that found C109, and filed on the same day as it. This is the first tracked action to name the Google and Alphabet cluster together with the Richard Burgess cluster: Google and Alphabet are already defendants in the DSP007 and DSP014 actions, while Richard Burgess and the Vegan Gains channel are the two defendants in C062, where a default-judgment motion was denied without prejudice. All four defendants were already tracked parties before this filing. The docket records the nature of suit as 190 Contract: Other. Both complaints filed on Oct. 6, 2026 recite the same filing-fee receipt number; the payment entry appears only on the C109 docket, and this docket carries an application to proceed in forma pauperis instead. The denial of emergency status is known only from the plaintiff's own notice about it rather than from any order text, so it is recorded as a docket entry and not as a court finding.

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Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Google LLC (3:26-cv-02977)". Research last verified October 7, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/3-26-cv-02977-tufano-v-google-llc/
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