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.
Stevinson is an unincorporated community in Merced County, California. It is located 20 miles (32 km) west of Merced, at an elevation of 85 feet (26 m). The Stevinson post office opened in 1907. The name honors James J. Stevinson, who bought land nearby in 1852.