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Public statement source · YT306
Was this Corrupt Freemason Judge PAID OFF BY DR. TABAN!?
Describes the speaker's self-represented conduct in a West Coast state court against the surgeon, alleges the presiding judge is biased, confirms a notice of appeal from a dismissal and multiple appeals overall, and states that he paid two people to leaflet outside the surgeon's office.
Primary topicTaban California state-court litigation
Research relevanceDirect case reference
Case-link confidenceHigh
Last checkedAugust 30, 2026
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Moderate pattern relevanceJudicial or forum bias alleged00:00
So, I've been trying my best to represent myself in the state court against Dr. Toban, but this judge has been screwing me over since day one,
Confirms pro-se status in an identified forum, identifies the opposing party by surname and alleges the presiding judge has been against him since day one. The judge is never named and no court has made any finding on the allegation.
Why this classification: The allegation of judicial bias is stated plainly and the forum and opposing party are identified well enough to reach a tracked case, but the statement describes the court's conduct rather than any filing of his own, so it is Moderate.
Moderate pattern relevanceJudicial or forum bias alleged00:07
which is why I hired two people to stand outside Dr. Tibbon's office and hand out flyers of my face for the rest of this doctor's life. Because I'm I'm ruling out the factors. They control the court system. They control everything. Okay, fine. I don't really care what happens in court because at the end of the day, all of these scumbag doctors are going to lose tens of millions of dollars.
Confirms in his own words that he hired two people to hand out flyers outside the surgeon's office for the rest of that doctor's life, dating the campaign to on or before publication, and states that the court outcome does not matter to him because the doctors will lose tens of millions of dollars.
Why this classification: He says the opposing side controls the court system and that this is why he hired two people to leaflet outside the office instead - a forum-bias allegation given as his reason for choosing publicity over litigation, so the cost he describes is imposed by leafleting rather than by any filing.
Moderate pattern relevanceFiling announced or confirmedAdverse outcome describedJudicial or forum bias alleged00:28
Yeah, you can make up lies and dismiss my case and tell me the wrong hearing times and pretend that half of my documents weren't filed, saying I didn't submit a case management statement, yet I literally filed one in July. I mean, I filed a notice of appeal on this, but I I don't really care. These this judge is is not following the rules of the court.
He complains that the court dismissed his case for a missing case management statement he says he filed in July, and confirms he filed a notice of appeal from that dismissal. The recited ground matches a dismissal order recorded three days before publication.
Why this classification: A confirmed notice of appeal is filing conduct he reports himself and the adverse outcome is described, but a direct appeal within the same case is deliberately not treated as filing after an adverse decision, so no core factor applies and the tier is Moderate.
I've had to file multiple appeals. It takes it like they take two weeks to correspond with the West Coast cord and by the time they mail it to me, my actions are already getting dismissed because it's taking too long.
A first-person statement of appellate filing volume and of the mechanism he attributes his dismissals to, cross-country mail delay to a West Coast court. It is not a claim of volume across forums and multiple appeals is undated and unquantified.
Why this classification: He gives his own count of filings, which is a non-core factor, alongside a description of outcomes against him; no repeat filing, new action after a loss or cost motive is named, so the statement stays Moderate.
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3:26-cv-01016 — Tufano v. Eriksson et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:07 researched as bearing on this case: the paid leafleting campaign he confirms here is the subject of the flyer-distribution allegations later pleaded in C071. The distributor is referred to only as two people and is never named.
25SMCV00041 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.Transcript reference · High · Timestamped statement at 00:28 researched as bearing on this case: the dismissal he describes for a case management statement he says he filed in July matches the recited ground of the 2025-10-13 terminating-sanction order recorded for C101, published three days later, in the West Coast state forum against the surgeon he names.