Products liability doctrine holds a manufacturer, or other party involved in selling a product, strictly liable when an article, placed into the market with knowledge that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes a personal injury. Consumers who are injured because of a fault with a product that the consumers had no ability to protect themselves against may recover against the manufacturer under a theory of products liability.
Gallant (also Clear Springs) is an unincorporated community in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. It lies west of the city of Gadsden, the county seat of Etowah County. Its elevation is 814 feet (248 m). Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 35972.