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.
Gibsland is a town in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,119 at the 2000 census. The community is best known for the nearby capture in 1934 of the bandits Bonnie and Clyde. F. Jay Taylor, president of nearby Louisiana Tech University at Ruston from 1962-1987, was born in Gibsland.