August 18, 2026 · Case status update

Research updates — August 18, 2026 (4 items)

C008, C009, C013 (Better Business Bureau, Fidelity Bank, Shopify) resolved via direct Lackawanna Prothonotary portal lookup: Verified via direct LPA portal navigation -- including retrieving and reading the actual Verified Complaints and, where issued, court orders, not just docket-entry descriptions -- the status of three previously-unresearched Lackawanna County cases: C008 (Better Business Bureau) was dismissed on preliminary objections by Memorandum and Order dated 2026-07-14, with Tufano’s appeal and BBB’s motion for attorney’s fees both pending; C009 (Fidelity Bank) was voluntarily discontinued with prejudice by Tufano on 2026-02-02 before any ruling on the merits; C013 (Shopify) was removed to the Middle District of Pennsylvania on 2025-07-16, confirmed as the same originating action already tracked as C054. Also added first “About this case” claims summaries for all three, sourced from their Verified Complaints. Two related cases (C014/TikTok, C015/All Ways Forwarding) were re-verified during the same portal session but held back from this batch pending further review.

C001, C002, C004 (Miller, Crispino, Davis) resolved via direct Lackawanna Prothonotary portal lookup: Verified via direct LPA portal navigation -- including retrieving and reading the actual Verified Complaints, not just docket-entry descriptions -- that all three cases remain open with no disposition entered. C001 (Tufano v. Miller) and C002 (Tufano v. Crispino) both show active 2026 motion-to-transfer-venue / order-to-show-cause activity through 6/16/2026; C004 (Tufano v. Davis) appears dormant, with no docket activity since April 2025. Added first ‘About this case’ claims summaries for all three, sourced from their Verified Complaints. Also found and added 4 defendants named in C001's complaint but missing from the tracker (GoFundMe Inc., Off Grid with Doug and Stacy LLC, Riverside Homestead Life LLC, Maple Leaf Media LLC), and linked C004 to the existing DSP020 dispute grouping alongside its companion New York suit (C094).

C005, C006, C011, C012 (PPL/Frontier, Fenix Internet, Rational USA) resolved via direct Lackawanna Prothonotary portal lookup: Verified via direct LPA portal navigation -- including retrieving and reading the actual Verified Complaints and, where issued, court orders and settlement filings, not just docket-entry descriptions -- the status of four previously-unresearched Lackawanna County cases. C005 (PPL Electric Utilities/Frontier, 2025-01448): the court granted both defendants' unanswered preliminary objections 4/21/2025 (added as a COURT_FINDINGS entry); Tufano appealed and separately settled with Frontier for $4,500, with a joint Consent Petition for Final Decree filed 7/14/2025 to dismiss Frontier (but not PPL) with prejudice -- not yet confirmed entered by the court. C006 (2025-03175) is a companion complaint against the same defendants, swept into the same Frontier settlement. C011 (Fenix Internet LLC/OnlyFans, 2025-03931) was removed to federal court 2025-06-27 as the same action already tracked as C052, and is at least the third near-identical suit over the same 2023 account ban after C042 and C051. C012 (Rational USA, 2025-03932) remains pending, with a Motion for Default Judgment filed 2026-01-14 still unruled as of this check. Added first “About this case” claims summaries for all four cases.

C007, C010, C016, C017 (Lackawanna Assistance Office, USDA, Alibaba, Lackawanna County/Tyler Technologies) resolved via direct Lackawanna Prothonotary portal lookup: Verified via direct LPA portal navigation -- including retrieving and reading the actual Verified Complaints and, where issued, court orders, not just docket-entry descriptions -- the status of four previously-unresearched Lackawanna County cases. C007 (Lackawanna County Assistance Office, 2025-03927) and C010 (USDA, 2025-03930) remain open with no merits disposition; C010's own portal litigant-index table mislabels its defendant (matching C007's caption), but the Verified Complaint's civil cover sheet and a docketed "Motion to Dismiss by Deft., Weiwei Lu" confirm the tracker's existing USDA/Weiwei Lu defendant record is correct -- a clerk indexing error, not a tracker error. C016 (Alibaba, 2025-05632): the court sustained Alibaba Group (U.S.), Inc.'s personal-jurisdiction objection and dismissed claims against it (2026-03-09, added as a COURT_FINDINGS entry), with Tufano's appeal now docketed at the Superior Court as 711 MDA 2026; co-defendant Zhucheng Kangze Machinery Co. remains unresolved. C017 (Lackawanna County/Tyler Technologies, 2025-05633): the court denied Tufano's motions for a stay and recusal (2026-04-02, added as a COURT_FINDINGS entry), with that denial now on appeal as 723 MDA 2026; the underlying Board of Assessment appeal has not been decided on the merits. Added first “About this case” claims summaries for all four cases.

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Added case status, outcome, and “About this case” details for three Lackawanna County cases (Better Business Bureau, Fidelity Bank, Shopify) based on a direct county court-records lookup.

Added case status and ‘About this case’ details for three Lackawanna County cases (Miller, Crispino, Davis) based on a direct county court-records lookup.

Added case status, outcome, and “About this case” details for four Lackawanna County cases (PPL/Frontier x2, Fenix Internet/OnlyFans, Rational USA) based on a direct county court-records lookup.

Added case status, outcome, and “About this case” details for four Lackawanna County cases (Lackawanna County Assistance Office, USDA, Alibaba, Lackawanna County/Tyler Technologies) based on a direct county court-records lookup.

Update source — lpa-homes.org ↗

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