Research updates - August 23, 2026 (6 items)

Sixteen M.D. Pa. dockets researched (C052, C069, C070, C073-C085): The last block of cases carrying a bare "Research pending" status was researched. Every one of the sixteen now has a confirmed assigned judge, and twelve have confirmed nature-of-suit, cause-of-action and jurisdictional coding. C084 and C085 gained filing dates the tracker did not previously hold. Six cases (C069, C070, C073, C074, C084, C085) could not have their current status independently verified and are recorded as such rather than as confirmed no-change.

C052 stay question resolved: A stay order was entered 2025-12-18 staying the case until 30 days after the related C051 is resolved, and no lift-stay entry appears on a docket current through 2026-08-21 -- so the default-judgment motions of 2026-06-10 and 2026-06-23 were filed during the stay. This closes an item deliberately held back on 2026-08-22.

New court finding on C073: The Report and Recommendation in companion case C060, read directly, records that C073 was filed raising the identical claims brought in C060, that the full filing fee was paid, and that an Amended Complaint was filed there on 2026-04-28. C073's own docket remains unreachable to every source attempted.

These cases are fee-paid, not in forma pauperis: Every case with readable entries shows a $405 filing fee, and the seven simultaneous 2026-07-29 filings share a single receipt number. The 28 U.S.C. 1915(e)(2) screening track that would normally produce an early magistrate report and recommendation does not apply to them, and those seven were assigned across five different magistrate judges with no consolidation. Quiet dockets are the expected posture here.

First adversarial movement: In C076, defendant Morea Agency LLC moved to dismiss for failure to state a claim on 2026-08-21.

Stale verification flags corrected: Six rows in the Pennsylvania state/federal relationship table (PR011-PR016) still recorded their state-side cases as awaiting a direct county-portal check, although all of those cases had been verified that way between 17 and 20 August 2026.

Related cases

• 3:25-cv-01165 — Tufano v. Fenix Internet LLC
• 3:26-cv-01020 — Tufano v. Mighty Meats LLC et al
• 3:26-cv-01021 — Tufano v. Ice Cream for Bears LLC et al
• 3:26-cv-01018 — Tufano v. United States Department of Agriculture
• 3:26-cv-01266 — Tufano v. Saladino, MD et al
• 3:26-cv-01312 — Tufano v. Small Business Administration et al
• 3:26-cv-01667 — Tufano v. National Fire & Marine Insurance et al
• 3:26-cv-02135 — Tufano v. Crispino et al
• 3:26-cv-02136 — Tufano v. United Healthcare
• 3:26-cv-02133 — Tufano v. Hiraeth et al
• 3:26-cv-02132 — Tufano v. BBB
• 3:26-cv-02134 — Tufano v. Miller et al
• 3:26-cv-02138 — Tufano v. Experian et al
• 3:26-cv-02137 — Tufano v. Carbondale Police Department et al
• 3:26-cv-02238 — Tufano v. Meagher Insurance Agency et al
• 3:26-cv-02257 — Tufano v. Free and Accepted Masons of Union Lodge No. 291 et al

Note

Docket coding, assigned judges and filing dates in this update are docket snapshots taken from public court-record aggregators, not judicial findings. No complaint in any of these sixteen cases could be read this pass, so the descriptions of what each case claims rest on docket coding rather than on the complaint's own text, and are flagged that way on each case page. Where a case's current status could not be independently verified, it is recorded as unverified rather than as unchanged.