Tony Stauber

Tony joined Gustafson Gluek as an associate in 2021 after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Caroline H. Lennon, District Judge, First Judicial District of Minnesota. 

As an associate at the Firm, Mr. Stauber represents individuals and businesses who are harmed by illegal collusion and price-fixing schemes between competitors, and violations of state and federal consumer protection statutes.. Additionally, Mr. Stauber practices in the area of civil rights, where he has represented clients in high-profile cases involving police brutality and other constitutional violations. He is passionate about pursuing claims on behalf of clients who have been harmed by institutions of power – whether those are gigantic corporations or law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Stauber is an active member of the Minnesota and Federal bar associations and is using his legal education to improve access to justice for all litigants. Mr. Stauber believes that all individuals and businesses deserve their day in court.

Mr. Stauber graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in English Literature. He graduated magna cum laude from Mitchell Hamline School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Stauber was Vice President of the Mitchell Hamline Hovenkamp Antitrust Society, Membership Coordinator of the Mitchell Hamline Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a student researcher and member of the Mitchell Hamline Sex Offender Litigation and Research Center. Additionally, Tony was the Production Editor of the Mitchell Hamline Journal of Public Policy and Practice, where he was a published author of an article on the topic of qualified immunity.

Mr. Stauber has been an active member of the National Speech and Debate Association and the Minnesota State High School League as a speech and debate coach for ten years.

More About Tony

    • Mitchell Hamline School of Law - J.D.

    • University of Minnesota - B.A.

    • Minnesota State Bar

  • Since joining Gustafson Gluek, Tony has had the opportunity to work on a variety of cases involving antitrust, consumer protection, and civil rights law. Tony is currently representing a class of Consumer and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs in an action alleging that nearly twenty of the largest poultry producers in the country illegally conspired to restrain supply of broiler chickens in order to artificially improve the producers’ profit margins. Plaintiffs’ counsel across all three classes have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements to date. In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Ill.). Tony also represents a class of Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs in an antitrust action alleging similar misconduct by the nation’s largest beef producers, which has led to millions of dollars in settlements to date. In re Cattle and Beef Antitrust Litigation (D. Minn). Tony is part of the litigation team that has been litigating constitutional rights violations on behalf of a class of individuals who have been indefinitely committed to the Minnesota Sexual Offender Program, a case which began in 2010 and has proceeded to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals three times and remains active to date. Karsjens v. Piper (D. Minn). Tony has also represented protesters in class and individual cases who were brutalized by police in retaliation for exercising their First Amendment rights. Settlements in both Samaha v. City of Minneapolis (D. Minn) and Wolk v. City of Brooklyn Center (D. Minn) have resulted in substantial injunctive relief, including policy changes within the Minneapolis Police Department and Minnesota State Patrol.

    Other Representative Cases:

    • Brnich v. Siemens (N.D. Ga.)

    • Havrilla v. Centene Corp. (N.D. Ill.)

    • In re Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Ill.)

    • In re 3M Combat Arms Earplugs Litigation (D. Minn)

    • Baldwin v. Miracle Ear, Inc. (D. Minn.) Rud v. Johnston, et al. (D. Minn)