Adam T. Ratliff
- Associate
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- Represent several large automotive suppliers in a variety of supply-chain disputes
- Both successfully obtained and defended against injunctive relief on behalf of automotive clients in supply-chain litigation
- Represented manufacturing client in arbitration, obtaining an award equal to 100% of client’s claim
- Member of multiple Warner teams defending against class actions
- Represented environmental remediation company in federal fraud investigation; no charges were ever brought against the client
Appeals
- Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017): Member of the WNJ team that earned victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case about a defendant’s right to make an informed plea decision
- Represent several large automotive suppliers in a variety of supply-chain disputes
- Both successfully obtained and defended against injunctive relief on behalf of automotive clients in supply-chain litigation
- Represented manufacturing client in arbitration, obtaining an award equal to 100% of client’s claim
- Member of multiple Warner teams defending against class actions
- Represented environmental remediation company in federal fraud investigation; no charges were ever brought against the client
Appeals
- Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017): Member of the WNJ team that earned victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case about a defendant’s right to make an informed plea decision when facing deportation as a possible penalty
- Leapers, Inc. v. SMTS, LLC, 879 F.3d 731 (6th Cir. 2018): Obtained unanimous reversal of trial court decision that had found client’s product design functional and thus ineligible for trade dress protection
- Hetterscheidt v. Aleris Specification Alloys, Inc., Case No. 16-2417 (6th Cir. 2017): Successfully defended the lower court’s grant of summary judgment to client in a case concerning the intentional fraud exception to Michigan’s Worker’s Disability Compensation Act
- Magley v. M & W Incorporated, 926N.W.2d 1(Mich. Ct. App. 2018): Won reversal of trial court’s grant of summary disposition
- “Warner Virtual Automotive Executive Roundtable Series,” Warner Roundtable, March 25, 2021
- “Warner Virtual Automotive Executive Roundtable Series,” Warner Roundtable, March 25, 2021
- Stellantis Rethinks 2022 T&Cs After Supplier FeedbackAhead of the Curve Auto Supplier
- Time To Go To Court? Your Contract May Dictate When, Where and HowAhead of the Curve Auto Supplier
- Coronavirus: When Is a Global Pandemic a Force Majeure Event?Ahead of the Curve Auto Supplier
- Mind your Ts & Cs (Terms & Conditions)Ahead of the Curve Auto Supplier
- Suppliers Begin to Tackle Tariff CostsAhead of the Curve Auto Supplier
- MSC: Should appellate courts review the tape?
- MSC to consider how strictly prosecutors must adhere to habitual offender notice requirement
- Fear itself . . . is not a “serious psychological injury”
- Dyson’s entrance into the auto industry is a reminder that change is comingAhead of the Curve Auto Supplier
- MSC: Single photographic identification was unfairly suggestive
- MSC to consider whether it was reasonable trial strategy to allow an expert to testify regarding the victim’s truthfulness
- COA: It is a violation of the separation of powers for a plea deal to include abstention from public office. MSC denies expedited review.
- A Renewed Focus on Michigan Groundwater Extraction Could Have a Ripple Effect for Michigan Auto ManufacturersAhead of the Curve Auto Supplier
- Using Loan Money for an Improper Purpose can be Conversion, Even if Money is Legally Acquired
- COA: When driver consents to motor vehicle search, that includes a passenger’s backpack
- In a 30-year-old cold case, the MSC holds in a 4-3 decision that a failure to give jury instructions regarding good-character evidence was harmless error
- MSC: 15-year-old conviction that failed the “strikingly similar” test was barred from admission under the character evidence rule
- Jury Verdicts Convicting a Defendant of Two Mutually Exclusive Offenses Are Reviewable
- MSC: Trial Court May Not Correct an Invalid Sentence Sua Sponte After Judgment Has Been Entered
- MSC to consider whether mixing and repackaging tobacco renders an individual a “manufacturer” of tobacco subject to the TPTA
- COA holds that third-degree child abuse statute is not unconstitutionally vague
- MSC grants MOAA regarding whether a district court abuses its discretion in dismissing charges at a preliminary examination based on witness credibility
- COA: Traditional sentencing factors should not apply when sentencing juvenile offender facing life without parole
- MSC: Police “knock and talk” conducted during predawn hours in order to gather information is search subject to Fourth Amendment warrant requirement
- MSC to hear oral argument on whether single photographic identification violates due process
- COA: Discovery of valid arrest warrant following illegal search/seizure does not cure constitutional violation
- MSC: All prisoners are eligible for sentence reduction, not just those already eligible for day parole
- MSC: Sentencing points for psychological harm to the victim’s family does not require proof that treatment was sought
- MSC grants MOAA regarding the admission of other-acts evidence under MRE 404(b) and whether MCL 168.937 creates the substantive offense of election forgery
- COA: Convicted felons cannot be authorized medical marijuana providers, even if they have a license
- COA addresses the requirement that a departure from the sentencing guidelines need only meet the proportionality standard
- COA: A dog’s past general aggression is not enough to sustain criminal charges against owners of a “dangerous animal”
- COA upholds immunity for licensed medical marijuana provider, examining weight and location of drying plants
- COA addresses what restitution can be awarded to governmental entities for expenses incurred in a criminal investigation
- MSC grants leave to consider whether courts are bound by the sentence of one day to life for a conviction of indecent exposure by a sexually delinquent person
- COA: Although it imposes a tax, statute allowing trial courts to order criminal defendants to pay court costs is constitutional
- MSC grants MOAA to consider scope of defendant’s right to withdraw plea where court imposes sentence arguably inconsistent with Cobbs evaluation
- MSC orders MOAA on whether exigent circumstances permitted a warrantless entry and whether defendant may withdraw plea after unconstitutional warrantless entry
- MSC denies leave following MOAA on whether prosecutor satisfied notice requirements when seeking enhanced sentence
- COA: Criminal sentencing guidelines are always advisory
- COA holds that test for whether an interrogation requires Miranda warnings does not turn solely on the location of the interrogation
- MSC grants MOAA on whether trial courts must read jury instructions aloud
- MSC to hear MOAA on whether prosecutor satisfied notice requirements when seeking enhanced sentence
- Warner Virtual Automotive Executive Roundtable Series
- New TCPA Litigation Trends and Steps to Keep You Out of the Courtroom
- 11 Warner Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch List
- Eight Warner Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers Ones to Watch List
- Warner Welcomes Adam Ratliff
- Stellantis Overhauls Terms and Conditions – What You Need to Know at a Glance
- Callers Beware: How Health Care Companies Can Avoid Liability Under the TCPA
- U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Government Debt Exception to TCPA, But Leaves TCPA Intact for Now
- SCOTUS: The Door to the Jury Room Can be Opened if Evidence of Racial Bias
- “A Pandemic Success Story,” dri™ Certworthy, 8/4/2021
- Stellantis Overhauls Terms and Conditions – What You Need to Know at a Glance
- “A Pandemic Success Story,” dri™ Certworthy, 8/4/2021
- Stellantis Overhauls Terms and Conditions – What You Need to Know at a Glance
