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.
Shawnee is an unincorporated community in southeastern Converse County, Wyoming, United States. It lies along the concurrent U.S. Routes 18 and 20 east of the city of Douglas, the county seat of Converse County. Its elevation is 5,059 feet (/1,542 m), and it is located at 42°44′52″N 105°0′35″W / 42.74778°N 105.00972°W / 42.74778; -105.00972 (42.7477457, -105.0096940). Although Shawnee is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 82229.