August 20, 2026 · Case status update

Research updates — August 20, 2026 (3 items)

C071 (Tufano v. Eriksson et al., M.D. Pa. 3:26-cv-01016) was already tracked as dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction (2026-07-31) with a notice of appeal noted as pending. Directly reviewing the Third Circuit's docket confirmed the appeal was docketed August 6, 2026 as No. 26-2996, with appellees (Anthony Eriksson, Mehryar Ray Taban MD, Mehryar Taban MD Inc.) entering an appearance through counsel Kimberly D. Borland and the district-court record transmitted the same day. Also added two litigation-chronology entries (dismissal and appeal-docketing) to the California/Taban multi-action chronology.

Six Lackawanna County dockets researched (C019-C024): Direct county court-records lookups for six requested Lackawanna County dockets. Added case status, docket history, and "About this case" claims summaries for all six; closed out C022 (Fidelity Deposit & Discount Bank v. Free Range Meat LLC -- a debt-collection matter naming Tufano as a defendant, discontinued with prejudice 2026-02-06). Also added a court finding to C020 and C024: a single Consolidated Order (2026-04-21, James A. Gibbons, P.J.) denying Motions to Transfer Venue in both cases plus a third, unrequested case (2025-CV-3928).

Nine Lackawanna County dockets researched (C025-C029, C031, C033, C037, C038): Direct LPA portal lookups for the next contiguous batch of previously-unresearched Lackawanna County dockets, continuing directly from the C019-C024 batch above. C025 (State Farm/BMW/Dickson City PD), C027 (Meagher/Nazareth Mutual/ByteDance/TikTok), C028 (Google/Alphabet/Meagher/Nazareth Mutual), C029 (Reddit/ByteDance/TikTok/Lavely & Singer/Taban), and C033 (Mohawk Global Logistics) all remain open/pending, with no dispositions reached. C031 and C037 are two separate American Express National Bank v. Tufano debt-collection suits against Tufano with sealed or lengthy complaints -- status and defense summarized from Tufano's own motions rather than the complaints themselves. C026 (Fidelity Bank) was voluntarily discontinued with prejudice by Tufano on 2026-02-02, before any ruling on the merits. C038 (Tufano v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and eight individually-named Lackawanna County judges) is the most substantial: naming a sitting judge triggered a full-bench recusal, and the reassigned senior judge dismissed the case against both the Commonwealth (sovereign immunity) and the judicial defendants (judicial immunity/sovereign immunity/collateral estoppel) on 2026-07-16, now on appeal (Superior Court No. 1155 MDA 2026); claims against Lackawanna County and Union Lodge No. 291 remain unresolved. Also resolved a previously-flagged 'potential removal relationship' between C027/C028 and federal case 3:26-cv-02238 -- neither docket's own record shows any Notice of Removal, so the flagged relationship is not supported. Added first 'About this case' claims summaries for all nine cases.

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Nine of these cases remain open/pending with no dispositions reached; sourcing confidence varies where a complaint was sealed or too long to read in full, noted on the case page. The Commonwealth/judicial-defendants dismissal in C038 is under active appeal, not final.

Update source — dockets.justia.com ↗

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