Current Investigations

Gustafson Gluek PLLC is currently investigating Wells Fargo for continued discrimination against African Americans and other racial minorities in home loan applications.

Federal data indicates that thousands of racial minorities were denied the ability to refinance their home loan based on the color of their skin. Simply put, Wells Fargo’s alleged practices are tantamount to 21st century “redlining,” forcing thousands of African Americans and other racial minorities to pay more for their home loans than was required for non-Black (and non-minority) applicants.

In addition to the monetary impact against minority borrowers paying thousands of dollars more when compared to non-minorities, these alleged discriminatory practices plunged many African Americans and other racial minorities into foreclosure.

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Gustafson Gluek PLLC is currently investigating Hyundai Motor Company; KIA America, Inc; Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.; General Motors Company; Toyota Motor Corporation; and Ford Motor Company for artificially inflating the destination fees they charge a consumer to deliver a new vehicle to the dealership from the port or factory and failing to disclose the actual cost. For more information or to speak to someone about this potential case, please click the link below, or contact us directly using the case consultation link above.

Gustafson Gluek PLLC is currently investigating the 2022 Jeep Wrangler 4XE for advertising a hybrid powertrain that does not function as a hybrid powertrain in cold temperatures. The vehicle is advertised as capable of running on both gasoline and battery power. Customers report, however, receiving a Fuel and Oil Refresh Mode (FORM) message when temperatures are cold and being unable to run the vehicle off of battery power alone. The FORM message appears because the vehicle’s oil viscosity has not reached the necessary levels to maintain engine lubrication. As a result, the vehicle’s engine continues to run to heat the oil up, up to 2.5 hours over cumulative trips, meaning that the owner is unable to run off of battery power alone until the proper oil conditions are met.

Jeep Wrangler 4XE owners who live in cold temperatures, and worse, those who take short trips and may have wanted to save on gas, are stuck with a hybrid vehicle that runs off of gas alone until the FORM message disappears. Customers justifiably relied on the adequacy of Jeep’s hybrid powertrain to run off of battery power first before needing to switch to gasoline. Now, rather than receive a range of 21 miles of battery power, owners can only tap into the vehicle’s 20-MPG combined fuel economy.

Gustafson Gluek represents farmers who purchased tractor and combine repair services from John Deere and Deere Dealerships. Plaintiffs allege that John Deere has illegally monopolized the repair service market for Deere brand agricultural equipment with onboard central computers known as engine control units, or “ECUs”.

Farmers have traditionally had the ability to repair and maintain their own tractors as needed, or else have had the choice to bring their tractors to an independent mechanic. However, in newer generations of its agricultural equipment, Deere has deliberately monopolized the market for repair and maintenance services of its agricultural equipment with ECUs (“Deere Repair Services”) by making crucial software and repair tools inaccessible to anyone not affiliated with Deere. Deere has also forced consolidation among its dealerships, limiting or eliminating price competition for repair services among Deere-affiliated dealerships. As a result of shutting out farmers and independent repair shops from accessing the necessary resources for repairs and limiting competition among its dealers, Deere has cornered the Deere Repair Services Market in the United States for Deere-branded agricultural equipment controlled by ECUs and derived supracompetitive profits from its sale of repair and maintenance services.

If you purchased repair services from Deere or a Deere dealership or technician for ECU-containing Deere tractors or combines from January 12, 2018 to the present, you may have a claim. The ECU-containing tractors/combines at issue were sold from the early 2000s onward.

Gustafson Gluek is currently investigating Amazon’s business practices to determine whether Amazon has violated the law by mishandling certain customer data. Please fill out the form below to learn whether your rights may have been affected.

Gustafson Gluek is investigating anticompetitive hiring practices in the in-home healthcare industry whereby companies have illegally agreed not to hire or solicit one another’s home healthcare employees, such as nurses, physical therapists, and aides. These agreements, known as ‘no-poach agreements’, have reportedly suppressed the wages and benefits of in-home healthcare workers and restricted their mobility. In-home healthcare companies include Kindred at Home, Amedisys, LHC Group, Encompass Home Health and Hospice, AccentCare, Brookdale Senior Living Solutions, Bayada, Trinity Health at Home, Elara Caring, and Interim Healthcare.

In 2016, the United States Justice Department’s Antitrust Division announced that it would criminally prosecute agreements among companies to not hire competitors' employees. It has been reported that the Justice Department issued subpoenas at the end of October 2019 to various home health care companies and that one unnamed company has reported conduct and sought leniency from prosecution.

Gustafson Gluek is investigating Vitol, SK Energy, and SK Trading for engaging in a scheme to artificially inflate gas prices for their own profit following a February 2015 explosion at a gasoline refinery that led to an undersupply of refined gasoline within California.

Any person or entity who has purchased gasoline in the State of California from February 18, 2015 through December 31, 2016 has been potentially harmed.