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Announces the suit against the Commonwealth and Lackawanna County five days before C038 was filed, and states its theory.
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So, we're here at the Lacawana [Lackawanna] County Courthouse. I've spent the better part of two years... filing all these lawsuits and some of them are defaulted.
A dated self-reported litigation-duration anchor (≈2024–2026 as of 2026-03-18),
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗I just spoke to a judge today. I submitted this document explaining, hey, there's five default motions in these cases. It's been months. Why haven't you ruled on them?
A specific, dated, docket-checkable claim — five pending motions for default judgment across Lackawanna cases, unruled on for "months" as of 2026-03-18, plus an in-person exchange with a judge the same day. This is exactly the kind of assertion a research-pa-court-records pass against the LPA Prothonotary portal could confirm or refute directly.
Watch at 00:33 — youtube.com ↗and they just don't allow prosay [pro se] litigants to participate in the court system. So I either have to appeal or file a lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania and the county of Lacwan [Lackawanna] explaining hey I have followed the civil procedure they are refusing to acknowledge me as a prosay litigant and acknowledge my motions for default.
This is the strongest single find of the batch. the case tracker records C038 as Tufano v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Lackawanna 2026-01907), filed 2026-03-23 — five days after this video — with Lackawanna County and Union Lodge No. 291 among the defendants whose claims remain unresolved. Here he states, in advance and in his own words, that he is going to sue the state of Pennsylvania and the county of Lackawanna, and gives the reason: refusal to rule on his default motions. The dataset's C038 record describes the case through its dismissal (judicial immunity, the Freemasonry allegations, the appeal); it does not record this stated origin, which is procedural and mundane by comparison.
Watch at 00:54 — youtube.com ↗And as I have stated, I've had people file lawsuits against me, against my different businesses. They did the exact same thing. They mailed me the complaint. I couldn't or didn't respond. They entered the default and then the motion for default was granted the day it was filed in the courthouse.
The comparison on which his whole grievance rests — that the same procedure produced a same-day default judgment when he was the defendant, but nothing when he is the plaintiff. Checkable: the tracked dataset already contains at least one case filed against him (C022, recorded as closed/discontinued with prejudice, found-6 pass). Whether any such case produced a same-day default judgment is a concrete docket question.
Watch at 01:35 — youtube.com ↗A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.