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.
Navarro (formerly, Novarro and Navarro Ridge) is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located 18 miles (29 km) west of Ukiah, at an elevation of 269 feet (82 m). The Navarro Ridge post office opened in 1867, changed its name in 1888, and closed in 1902. The name Navarro was subsequently applied to a place 14 miles (23 km) east of the present town at Wendling.