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.
Janesville (also, Gas Point and Lassen) is an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California. It is located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Susanville, at an elevation of 4239 feet (1292 m). Janesville is located on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. As of the 2000 census. it had a population of 3,089. The community consists of an elementary school, a park, three churches, two gas stations, a pizza parlor, a coffee shop, a veterinary hospital, a recently closed feed store, a hardware store, a post office, and a few other businesses. Janesville stretches over a distance of 8 miles (13 km). Its ZIP Code is 96114. The community is inside area code 530. Janesville is also home to Mankins Ranch, also known as the Janesville Bear Dance site, located southeast of Highway 395.