A mass tort is a civil action involving numerous plaintiffs against one or a few corporate defendants. The tort may involve, for example, personal injuries suffered by numerous plaintiffs as a result of a defective product, or a mass disaster in which there were many injured persons, such as an airplane crash, or exposure of a large group of people to toxic chemicals or pharmaceuticals.
Buckeye is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town was 29,615. In July 2007, Forbes ranked Buckeye as the 2nd-fastest growing municipality in the United States, having had its population grow by nearly 192% between 2000 and 2006.