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3:26-cv-03046 · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
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 ten defendants on October 13, 2026: Alphabet Inc., Ancestral Supplements LLC, Google LLC, Heart & Soil Supplements LLC, Joe Rogan Podcast LLC, Brian Johnson, Joe Rogan, Paul Saladino, The Fittest Ever LLC, and a placeholder defendant docketed as Other YouTube Influencers To be Named. The court’s own classification records the nature of the suit as civil rights in employment and the cause of action as 42 U.S.C. 1983 for employment discrimination.
The complaint runs to sixteen pages and is not published on any free source, so what is actually alleged against any of these defendants is not known and is not described here. Paul Saladino and Heart & Soil Supplements LLC are parties to earlier lawsuits in this record; the other individuals and companies named appear here for the first time, and this record says nothing about them beyond that the court lists them as defendants.
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Research status: Source-backed docket snapshot (PacerMonitor public case page read Oct. 14, 2026 and current to Oct. 13, 2026, carrying the court’s party block, nature of suit, cause of action and all four docket entries; CourtListener docket 74955660 read the same day for the header). The complaint itself, 16 pages, is not obtainable through the free federal archive and was not read, so what the action pleads is recorded only at the level of the court’s own classification.
Research notes: Discovered Oct. 14, 2026 by a nationwide sweep of the free federal docket index with no court filter, and found one day after it was filed. The free federal mirror holds the docket header only, so the party list was recovered from the court’s own party block on a docket-tracking service the following day. It names ten defendants: Alphabet Inc., Ancestral Supplements LLC, Google LLC, Heart & Soil Supplements LLC, Joe Rogan Podcast LLC, Brian Johnson, Other YouTube Influencers To be Named, Joe Rogan, Paul Saladino and The Fittest Ever LLC. Two of those were already tracked parties in the Saladino dispute group: Paul Saladino, who is a party to eight earlier actions in this record, and Heart & Soil Supplements LLC. Alphabet and Google were already tracked parties in other actions. The remaining six are new to this record, and nothing is recorded about any of them beyond the fact that the docket names them as parties. One defendant is a placeholder, docketed as Other YouTube Influencers To be Named. The court records the nature of suit as 442 Civil Rights - Employment and the cause as 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights, employment discrimination. The complaint runs to 16 pages and is not obtainable free.
Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
Tufano filed a federal complaint against ten defendants, among them Paul Saladino and Heart & Soil Supplements LLC, both parties to earlier actions in the Saladino dispute, together with Google, Alphabet and several individuals and companies new to this record. The $405 fee was paid and summonses issued as to all ten the same day.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗The same day, and on the same filing-fee receipt, Tufano filed a second federal complaint, against White Oak Pastures, REP Provisions, Thomas Cattle Company and Alphabet Inc. The court records it as an assault, libel and slander action.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Google LLC et al (3:26-cv-03046)". Research last verified October 14, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/3-26-cv-03046-tufano-v-google-llc-et-al/