Frank Tufano lawsuits involving Paul Saladino MD
8 originating actions · 11 docket records
Cases involving Paul Saladino MD
Paul Saladino MD is named in 8 de-duplicated originating actions in this dataset (11 docket records) across 2 courts filed between February 12, 2025 and May 11, 2026. 10 of the docket records carry a recorded outcome.
| Filed | Case | Court | Status / outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2026 | 3:26-cv-01266Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al | U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania | Removed from state court; consolidated |
| April 13, 2026 | 3:26-cv-00939Tufano v. Better Life Foods Inc. et al | U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania | Removed from state court |
| March 9, 2026 | 2026-01525Tufano v. Better Life | Lackawanna County | Removed to federal court |
| March 4, 2026 | 3:26-cv-00542Tufano v. Nelson et al | U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania | Report and recommendation adopted; motions to dismiss granted; case closed |
| February 17, 2026 | 2026-00838Tufano v. Saladino | Lackawanna County | Removed and consolidated |
| February 17, 2026 | 3:26-cv-00396Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al | U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania | Consolidation order (non-final) |
| February 6, 2026 | 2026-00637Tufano v. Nelson | Lackawanna County | Removed to federal court |
| October 17, 2025 | 4:25-cv-01960Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al | U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania | Dismissed |
| July 29, 2025 | 2025-05793Tufano v. Saladino | Lackawanna County | Pending; Motion for Default Judgment filed 2026-02-19, no order entered |
| July 29, 2025 | 3:25-cv-01400Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al | U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania | Dismissed |
| February 12, 2025 | 3:25-cv-00262Tufano v. Saladino et al | U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania | Dismissed |
Judges who have ruled in these cases
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Court & ruling records in these cases
Recorded only where tied to an order, opinion or report and recommendation.
Discovery stayed pending dispositive motions
Order and accompanying memorandum denied the plaintiff’s motion to expedite discovery (Doc. 43) and granted the defence motion to stay discovery (Doc. 45), without prejudice to renewal following resolution of the pending and potentially dispositive motions.…
Lack of jurisdiction
Court adopted the R&R and dismissed the complaint without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction.
Dismissal with prejudice
Court adopted the R&R and dismissed the complaint with prejudice. The short final order does not reproduce the complete reasoning from the R&R.
Repeated litigation / identical factual allegations (R&R)
R&R described C048, C055 and C059 as a trilogy raising essentially the same claims against the same defendants; it said C055 repeated the identical factual allegations from dismissed C048 and C059 again made identical factual allegations and the same claims.
Repeated previously rejected legal theory / amendment futile (R&R)
R&R noted that the private-right-of-action defect in Tufano's 18 U.S.C. §241 theory had already been explained in an earlier case and repeated in C048/C055; it also found that he had been advised of pleading deficiencies and chose not to amend, so further…
Court-stated litigation-volume observation (R&R footnote)
Footnote to the report and recommendation recording that "Plaintiff has filed at least twenty-two separate actions in this Court within the past two years, half of which are closed." This is a judicial statement about filing volume in the Middle District of…
What the filings allege
- 3:26-cv-01266Originally 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.
- 3:26-cv-00939Same claims as C036’s First Amended Complaint (the Lackawanna County original of this removed action): a recipe-theft/trade-dress dispute over Tufano’s proprietary “Best Bar” protein bar (whey protein, beef fat tallow, honey, vanilla, salt, created Dec.
- 2026-01525Plaintiff alleges he created a proprietary protein-bar recipe, “Best Bar,” on Dec.
- 3:26-cv-00542Plaintiff Frank Tufano, pro se, brings claims for fraud/fraudulent concealment (42 Pa.
- 2026-00838This is the originating Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas action that Paul Saladino, MD removed to federal court, docketed there as 3:26-cv-01266 (tracked separately as C074).
- 3:26-cv-00396Plaintiff Frank Tufano, pro se, alleges fraud, fraudulent concealment (42 Pa.
- 2026-00637Plaintiff Frank Tufano, pro se, filed this complaint in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas (later removed to federal court as 3:26-cv-00542, tracked separately as C064) bringing claims for fraud/fraudulent concealment (42 Pa.
- 4:25-cv-01960Proceeding pro se, Tufano filed this complaint on October 17, 2025 — the third of three near-identical suits over the same dispute — against Paul Saladino, M.D., Jeffrey Davis, Esq., White Plains Lodge #473, “the Illuminati,” and, new to this filing, U.S.
- 2025-05793Plaintiff alleges Dr.
- 3:25-cv-01400Proceeding pro se, Tufano filed a complaint on July 29, 2025 against Paul Saladino, M.D., attorney Jeffrey Davis, Esq., White Plains Lodge #473, and “the Illuminati,” asserting five causes of action: fraud, tortious interference, fraudulent concealment, civil conspiracy, and “conspiracy against rights” under 18 U.S.C.
- 3:25-cv-00262Plaintiff alleges that Paul Saladino, M.D.
These summarise the plaintiff's own allegations as pleaded. They are party filings, not court findings, and no court has adopted them by recording them here. Each links to the full summary on the case page.
Public statements by filing-restriction factor
16 researched statements are linked to cases naming Paul Saladino MD and describe filing conduct of a kind the indicator data records, ordered with the factors closest to the filing-restriction criteria first. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, not an allegation by this project against Paul Saladino MD, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant. Each card links to the video it was transcribed from. Statements whose words describe no filing conduct are not ranked here; they are listed on each case page and on the video's own research page.
What these tiers are: “Strong”, “Moderate” and “Context” are this project’s research classification of how closely a public statement bears on the documented filing-restriction indicators. They are not judicial findings, not an adjudication of anything said in a video, and not a determination that Frank Tufano is a vexatious litigant — no court in this dataset has made that determination. Court findings, party statements and research classifications are kept in separate evidence layers throughout this site; see Methodology.
How a tier is assigned. Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
What the factor labels are. Each statement is also labelled with the filing-restriction factor its own words describe, so the reason for a classification is visible rather than implied. Most factors correspond to a criterion recorded in the indicator data, and the three that do not are marked as such there — a filing that has only been threatened has no docket to record, and an allegation about a court is the speaker’s characterisation rather than a recorded criterion. Repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision and cost imposition as stated motive are the three that can qualify a statement as Strong; threatened or prospective filing, self-reported filing volume, filing announced or confirmed, adverse outcome described and judicial or forum bias alleged record related but weaker signals. A statement that describes no filing conduct carries no factor badge. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant.
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.
Quotations on this page are excerpts: a quotation ending in an ellipsis is shortened here for length. The full wording, and the reason recorded for its pattern-relevance tier, are on the video’s own research page — follow the ¶ permalink on any card.
Prospective repeated filing / cost imposition¶
which means whether I have to file this lawsuit every year for the rest of my life, state and federal court, these people have already spent at least $150,000 in attorney fees. So whether these people want to pay me for this idea or not…
Announces indefinite repeat filing on one dispute across state and federal court and gives the opponents' legal spend as the purpose, with their payment expressly made optional. He identifies the case by caption earlier in the same video.
Watch at 01:58 — youtube.com ↗Repeated/escalatory filing¶
I filed my lawsuit last week and now I got to file a whole new separate one because I miss these guys.
Confirms a lawsuit filed the previous week over his protein bars and, in the same breath, says he now has to file a whole new separate one over the same grievance. The tracked case matching that subject matter was filed seven days before publication.
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗Repeated/escalatory filing¶
it's it's crazy. It's crazy. I mean, it's not a big deal because I can kind of just copy and paste the lawsuit, but I don't know. You know, I might just be better off amending the You know what? I'll amend the current lawsuit. I'll add him…
The speaker weighs duplicating his pleading against amending the existing one, calling the duplicate option a matter of copy and paste, and settles on amending and adding a defendant. An amended complaint adding two defendants was filed in the matching case two days after publication.
Watch at 00:34 — youtube.com ↗Repeated/escalatory filing¶
And that's actually what's happening with the um the Saladino case. I filed a new one and I actually named, you know, the lawyer that screwed me over. I named the secret societies and I named That's a that was filed. I could talk about…
An announcement of a completed filing on an already-litigated dispute, with its defendant composition described rather than listed. C055 and C019 were both filed 2025-07-29, two days before publication, and both name exactly what he describes — a lawyer (Jeffrey Davis Esq; David D. Lin Esq) and secret societies (The Illuminati; White Plains Lodge #473) alongside Paul Saladino MD.
Watch at 04:28 — youtube.com ↗Repeated/escalatory filing¶
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…
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.
Watch at 12:55 — youtube.com ↗Repeated/escalatory filing¶
And the reason he changed his product name from Way Better Bar to Jacob Bar, is because I sued him in court. And I'm still trying to sue him in court. But guess what? If one of these corporate degenerates, these elite people, steal your…
The load-bearing quote from this video. It (a) names a tracked dispute by its product names, (b) confirms a filing already made against that party, (c) states that he is continuing to pursue further proceedings on the same grievance, and (d) alleges the judiciary will protect the opponent. The docket behind it: C039 (Tufano v. Levy et al, M.D. Pa. 3:23-cv-02106, filed 2023-12-20, dismissed 2024-10-11 for want of subject-matter jurisdiction, “expressly without further leave to amend”), then C093 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., filed 2024-11-14 — 34 days later — and pending on this date), then C036 (Lackawanna, 2026-03-09) and C068 (M.D. Pa., 2026-04-13). The case tracker records that C093's own December 2025 filing “states he had been attempting service since 'the previous lawsuit'” and attaches service records identifying C039 — which the tracker treats as supporting the refiling relationship. So “I'm still trying to sue him in court,” said in June 2025, sits between two rounds of that sequence and 275 days before the next one. Why Strong, written out so the call is auditable: the Strong rubric requires a tracked case or dispute and core filing conduct. The dispute is named via the product names, which the statement record already resolves to the Levy defendants, and “I sued him in court… and I'm still trying to sue him in court” describes continuing to litigate a grievance already litigated — the core factor Repeat filing on the same dispute — alongside a confirmed filing. A more conservative reading would take “still trying to sue him” as effort inside the then-pending C093 rather than a further action and classify this as Moderate (Filing announced or confirmed; Threatened or prospective filing); the Strong classification rests on the continued-pursuit reading, and the alternative is recorded here so the tier can be revisited without re-watching.
Watch at 00:46 — youtube.com ↗Litigation motive / cost imposition¶
But anyway, have fun paying your attorney, buddy.
The video's closing line, addressed directly to the competitor he has just said he intends to add to the lawsuit, framing the legal fees that competitor will have to pay as the payoff.
Watch at 01:42 — youtube.com ↗Legal escalation / contemplated proceeding¶
I'm glad I didn't file my lawsuit yet because I guess this is another defendant. This is getting insane. I asked you guys, if you know anyone else copying my bars, please let me know.
The speaker states that his lawsuit is prepared but not yet filed, that a newly identified competitor will be added as a defendant, and asks viewers to report further copycats to him. A tracked case in this dispute was filed three days after publication.
Watch at 00:42 — youtube.com ↗Filing announcement / stated motive¶
So, I was about to file my lawsuit against Jacob Bar and Prima Bar for theft of trade secret for stealing my best bar formula. And I saw Santa Cruz was launching his protein bar in March. And I had this weird hunch. I was like, you know…
A first-person account of filing strategy: a trade-secret complaint already prepared against two named brands, deliberately held back on a hunch so a further anticipated infringer could be added as a defendant. C036 was filed five days after publication naming both entities discussed.
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗Repeated/escalatory filing¶
because these companies have put their product in stores and on Amazon, that means I'm also suing every single platform that has promoted them from the actual sales channels like Amazon… And in addition to that, when these people promote…
States a method for growing the defendant list, joining the retailers that stock the product and the platforms that carry the promotion, and gives his own count of about twelve defendants. Two entities he names as sued are not on the docket and his count is lower than the docketed number, so this is what he said rather than a source for who the defendants are.
Watch at 01:20 — youtube.com ↗Filing announcement¶
Some of you guys are joking to sue the judge, and I've done that, but what do you expect? They just throw out the case. This is what happened when I sued the judge in the Saladin lawsuit, Nelson Staffen Roman. It was just thrown out last…
The speaker states, in his own words, that he sued the judge who presided over the Saladino action and that the suit was dismissed "last week." Both halves are independently corroborated by the dataset: C030/C064 (*Tufano v. Nelson*) names Roman Stephen Nelson (D0230) as a defendant, and its closing order was entered 2026-09-01, nine days before publication. It cannot reach Strong because neither factor is one of the three core filing-conduct factors — confirming a filing and reporting a ruling against himself are a docket fact and an announcement, not repeat-filing conduct.
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗Filing announcement¶
You guys can stay updated on the lawsuit if you search Tofano versus Better Life Foods, Inc. Better Life Foods, Inc. is the Jacob Bars Operating LLC.
He identifies the tracked case by its caption, which the auto-captions render as Tofano versus Better Life Foods, and directs viewers to follow it. This removes the usual guesswork about which matter a video concerns.
Watch at 01:07 — youtube.com ↗Filing announcement¶
Unfortunately, we had to file this lawsuit the other week against all these people who copied me.
Dates the filing to "the other week" — consistent with C036's recorded filing date of 2026-03-09, twelve days before this video. "Had to file" frames the suit as compelled rather than chosen, the same framing used in “Tufano v. Taban et al 3:25-cv-00011” about the pro se malpractice filing ("I don't really have a choice but to file the lawsuit myself").
Watch at 00:17 — youtube.com ↗Claim / pleading description¶
Better Life Foods is the Jacob Bar, which is also Jake Levy, Norman Levy, and Robin Levy. Eid Prima, I think, is actually Jacob Bar's new branding. Santa Cruz Paleo and Brendan R are Santa Cruz's bar. Power Puck is a whole separate bar.…
Independently confirms C036/C068's defendant list almost item-for-item, and
Watch at 00:20 — youtube.com ↗Court-proceeding reaction¶
And I didn't know that these judges could deny your right to a jury trial. And every single lawsuit I filed, I've always requested a jury trial. It's your amendment right, but I guess Frank Tufano isn't entitled to one.
This restates, on camera, the same jury-trial theory that C030/C064's claims summary records as pleaded — that the defendants denied him due process and a jury trial. It is the speaker's characterisation of how courts have treated his filings, not a court's finding, and it gives no count of filings, so `Self-reported filing volume` does not apply despite the phrase "every single lawsuit I filed."
Watch at 00:13 — youtube.com ↗Legal-system allegation¶
because uh basically this corrupt secret society Illuminati agent, whatever group he's a part of, is using his connection to likely Freemason judge uh to just go after me and ruin my life because this case is completely unjustified.
this is the only place the title's claim is actually spoken. Note he hedges it — "likely Freemason judge" — and at this point he names neither the plaintiff nor the judge. The judge is not named until [7:25]; the plaintiff is never named in the entire video (he states at [1:10] that the injunction bars him from doing so).
Watch at 01:28 — youtube.com ↗Named alongside
Paul Saladino MD is named in the same originating actions as 14 other tracked parties — these are mass filings rather than a small set of co-defendants. The largest of them is 2026-01525, which names 19 defendants. The full party list is on the case page.
Related dispute groups
- Saladino-related litigationThe Paul Saladino dispute: ten docket records from 2020 to 2026, beginning with Saladino's S.D.N.Y. suit and including later actions Tufano filed himself.
- Better Life / Levy product disputeFour docket records in the Better Life Foods and Levy dispute over competing food products, filed 2023-2026 in Pennsylvania, New York and federal courts.
This index groups name variants conservatively using the workbook's alias mapping. A repeated defendant does not by itself show that claims were duplicative or meritless.