A Missouri woman who tumbled from a ladder while hanging Christmas lights lost her products-liability case against the ladder company when a federal appeals panel decided her expert witness’ recreation of the accident bore little resemblance to the circumstances of the fall.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on June 26 found no merit in a civil-engineering professor’s theory that scooting the Little Giant Ladder across the floor compressed stored energy in the ladder’s legs which, when Flora Loomis climbed it, “kicked back,” causing her to tumble.

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