Mealey's (June 4, 2018, 1:30 PM EDT) -- SCRANTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania federal judge said May 31 that he must first hold a hearing pursuant to Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), before he decides a ladder maker’s request to strike expert testimony for a man who was injured when he fell from a ladder and now says the ladder was defective (Dennis Mercurio, et al. v. Louisville Ladder, Inc., No. 3:16-cv-412, M.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92111)....