Frank Tufano case records naming Terrence R. Nealon

By order of July 2, 2025, captioned In re Frank Tufano and docketed to the court’s administrative-order docket at No. 2025 CV 1, the court addressed his applications to proceed in forma pauperis under Pa.R.Civ.P. 240. The order records that in the eighteen weeks from January 27 to June 6, 2025 he filed twelve pro se lawsuits in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County; that four of them were instituted without in forma pauperis status; that six were instituted on May 27, 2025 after six such petitions were granted that day; and that two more followed on June 6, 2025 on the same basis. A footnote records that he had also obtained in forma pauperis status on September 3, 2024 for two further actions. The order states that “serious questions exist regarding Tufano’s allegations of poverty” on those dates given his apparent absence of indigency on the dates he filed without that status. Quoting Pa.R.Civ.P. 240(j)(1), under which a court may dismiss an action where the allegation of poverty is untrue or the action is frivolous, the court ordered him to present his three most recent in forma pauperis petitions to Civil Motions Court en banc on July 25, 2025 and to produce bank statements and other financial records, so that the court could determine whether he was entitled to proceed in forma pauperis to commence what the order calls his fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth pro se lawsuits within the past ten months. The three petitions concerned the actions that became this case and its two companions. The outcome of the en banc hearing is not recorded on any docket that could be located; the three complaints were docketed on the morning of July 25, 2025.

By order of July 2, 2025, captioned In re Frank Tufano and docketed to the court’s administrative-order docket at No. 2025 CV 1, the court addressed his applications to proceed in forma pauperis under Pa.R.Civ.P. 240. The order records that in the eighteen weeks from January 27 to June 6, 2025 he filed twelve pro se lawsuits in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County; that four of them were instituted without in forma pauperis status; that six were instituted on May 27, 2025 after six such petitions were granted that day; and that two more followed on June 6, 2025 on the same basis. A footnote records that he had also obtained in forma pauperis status on September 3, 2024 for two further actions. The order states that “serious questions exist regarding Tufano’s allegations of poverty” on those dates given his apparent absence of indigency on the dates he filed without that status. Quoting Pa.R.Civ.P. 240(j)(1), under which a court may dismiss an action where the allegation of poverty is untrue or the action is frivolous, the court ordered him to present his three most recent in forma pauperis petitions to Civil Motions Court en banc on July 25, 2025 and to produce bank statements and other financial records, so that the court could determine whether he was entitled to proceed in forma pauperis to commence what the order calls his fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth pro se lawsuits within the past ten months. The three petitions concerned the actions that became this case and its two companions. The outcome of the en banc hearing is not recorded on any docket that could be located; the three complaints were docketed on the morning of July 25, 2025.

By order of July 2, 2025, captioned In re Frank Tufano and docketed to the court’s administrative-order docket at No. 2025 CV 1, the court addressed his applications to proceed in forma pauperis under Pa.R.Civ.P. 240. The order records that in the eighteen weeks from January 27 to June 6, 2025 he filed twelve pro se lawsuits in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County; that four of them were instituted without in forma pauperis status; that six were instituted on May 27, 2025 after six such petitions were granted that day; and that two more followed on June 6, 2025 on the same basis. A footnote records that he had also obtained in forma pauperis status on September 3, 2024 for two further actions. The order states that “serious questions exist regarding Tufano’s allegations of poverty” on those dates given his apparent absence of indigency on the dates he filed without that status. Quoting Pa.R.Civ.P. 240(j)(1), under which a court may dismiss an action where the allegation of poverty is untrue or the action is frivolous, the court ordered him to present his three most recent in forma pauperis petitions to Civil Motions Court en banc on July 25, 2025 and to produce bank statements and other financial records, so that the court could determine whether he was entitled to proceed in forma pauperis to commence what the order calls his fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth pro se lawsuits within the past ten months. The three petitions concerned the actions that became this case and its two companions. The outcome of the en banc hearing is not recorded on any docket that could be located; the three complaints were docketed on the morning of July 25, 2025.