Duplicate party records merged and a miscited ruling re-sourced (September 6, 2026)
Eight parties were each recorded twice under two spellings, which counted sixteen records as sixteen separate entities when they are eight. In every case the two spellings sit in the two halves of a single action: a Lackawanna County case and the federal case it was removed to, which the tracker already joins as one action. The state caption lists a person surname-first and the federal caption lists the same person first-name-first, and the two forms had never been tied together.
The pairs are Nelson Roman Stephen and Roman Stephen Nelson, and McCarty Judith C and Judith C McCarthy, across C030 and its removal C064; Ruh Brendan and Brendan Ruh, Levy Jake and Jake Levy, Levy Norman and Norman Levy, and Levy Robyn and Robyn Levy, across C036 and its removal C068; and Weber Solomon and Solomon Weber, across C015 and its removal C057. Separately, Taban Taban MD Inc in C066 is the same medical corporation as Mehryar Taban MD Inc: C063 and C066 carry identical ten-party rosters and differ only in that one name.
The names as filed are unchanged on every docket record; only the entity each name resolves to has been corrected. The tracker now counts 327 canonical parties where it counted 335. No party crossed the threshold that governs whether it gets its own page, so no page was created or removed by this correction.
A citation on the California case C102 was removed and replaced. It pointed at a host readers cannot open, and the specific link went to the complaint rather than to the July 8, 2026 ruling on the motion to quash that it was cited for. The Los Angeles Court Access Portal is the free record for that ruling, but it issues no stable per-case link, so the citation now names the portal and the case number to search.
Related cases
- 2025-05469 — Tufano v. All Ways Forwarding
- 2026-00637 — Tufano v. Nelson
- 2026-01525 — Tufano v. Better Life
- 3:25-cv-01558 — Tufano v. All-Ways Forwarding et al
- 3:26-cv-00447 — Tufano v. The State of California et al
- 3:26-cv-00542 — Tufano v. Nelson et al
- 3:26-cv-00840 — Tufano v. The State of California et al
- 3:26-cv-00939 — Tufano v. Better Life Foods Inc. et al
- 25SMCV05503 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.
Note
Party pages and party counts across the site now treat eight duplicated names as the single parties they are. No docket record's own caption changed, and no party gained or lost a page. The California case C102 no longer cites a paywalled page for a ruling that page did not contain.