Two court-imposed sanctions recorded, and a monetary lead disproved (August 28, 2026)
Sanctions and filing-restriction review: this project previously recorded no verified sanction in any tracked case. That was an under-count. Two court-imposed sanctions are now recorded, both non-monetary terminating sanctions entered by the same judge in Los Angeles Superior Court Department 205 on the court's own order to show cause, for failure to appear and failure to file a case management statement: C101 on Oct. 13, 2025 and C102 on July 14, 2026. Both order texts were read in full.
The $1,400 monetary sanctions lead in C101 is resolved and negative. The Oct. 16, 2025 tentative ruling never became an order: the Oct. 13, 2025 minute order advanced and vacated all five Oct. 16 discovery hearings, the register of actions marks all five as not held, and no Oct. 16 minute order exists among the 139 documents published for that case. No monetary sanction has been verified in any tracked case.
No separate vexatious-litigant motion was ever filed in C102, as the July 8, 2026 ruling said would be required; all 29 published documents and all 5 proceedings were checked. The March 31, 2026 vexatious-litigant motion in the C.D. California action remains undecided, with the docket now read through entry 158 and no order document obtainable. No court has entered a filing restriction against Frank Tufano.
Also recorded: an order striking Tufano's statement of disqualification in C102 (Aug. 18, 2026), the denial of his reconsideration motion there under Code of Civil Procedure section 1008 (Aug. 19, 2026), and a third Ninth Circuit appeal docketed in the C.D. California action on Aug. 25, 2026.
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A terminating sanction and a monetary sanction are different things and are recorded separately here. The two sanctions now on file are dismissals imposed on the court's own order to show cause for failure to appear and to file required documents; neither is a Rule 11 or comparable monetary award, and no monetary sanction has been verified in any tracked case. None of this is a vexatious-litigant determination, and no court has entered a prefiling or filing-restriction order.