Saladino post-trilogy / parallel-action extension

Tufano filed C061 in M.D. Pa. against Paul Saladino, MD and Heart & Soil Supplements LLC.

Federal docket indexes C061 as an original action filed Feb. 17, 2026. · Docket-confirmed filing

A Lackawanna County Saladino case (2026-00838 / 26-cv-838) is recorded on the same date as C061.

The later federal Notice of Removal identifies state case 26-cv-838; direct state pleading remains inaccessible to this research browser. · Cross-source relationship

Paul Saladino removed Lackawanna County case 26-cv-838 to M.D. Pa. as 3:26-cv-01266.

Filing 1 is an explicit Notice of Removal and includes the county court record as an attachment. · Confirmed removal

The court consolidated 3:26-cv-01266 into 3:26-cv-00396, denied Tufano's default-judgment motion as premature, and ordered him to show cause by June 5 why the matter should not be dismissed for failure to effect proper service.

The consolidation order judicially establishes that the two federal proceedings were sufficiently related for consolidation. · Court consolidation/order

Chief Magistrate Judge Daryl F. Bloom recommended that the action be dismissed without prejudice for failure to effect proper service on the defendants, with objections due July 12, 2026. The plaintiff filed a response on July 6, 2026. No order adopting or rejecting the recommendation appears on the docket.

Docket-entry title and its quoted recommendation; the report itself is not obtainable from the free federal record and was not read. · Docket-confirmed filing

A magistrate judge recommended dismissal of every claim with prejudice on grounds of judicial immunity, the absence of a private right of action under the criminal statute pled, and claim preclusion, and recommended that leave to amend be denied as futile. The recommendation was adopted in full on Sept. 1, 2026.

Report and recommendation, read in full via GovInfo (Doc. 15, thirty-one pages). · Final court order

The removed federal action (M.D. Pa. 3:26-cv-00542) was dismissed and closed. The order adopted the Aug. 12, 2026 report and recommendation in its entirety, granted both motions to dismiss, and denied the plaintiff’s motion to strike as an objection.

GovInfo docket text of the order, verbatim; the order PDF is an image-only scan and was not read. · Docket chronology

Defendant Paul Saladino moved under the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. section 1651, for an injunction deeming the plaintiff a vexatious litigant and requiring prior court approval for further filings against him. A memorandum in support followed on Sept. 16, the plaintiff filed a brief in opposition on Sept. 17, and the second defendant joined the motion on Sept. 23, 2026. The motion is undecided.

The motion, its proposed order and the memorandum in support were read in full. The assertions in them are party allegations, not findings of any court. The plaintiff's opposition and its attachment are image-only scans with no text layer; they were read from locally rendered page images on 2026-10-23 and are summarised in VEXATIOUS_MOTIONS, as this project's reading rather than a verbatim record. · Party motion