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.
Higley is an unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It has its own school district. Higley's ZIP code was 85236 until 2007, when the U.S. Postal Service decided to abolish it. As of 2007, the vast majority of Higley has been annexed into either the neighboring town of Gilbert or the city of Mesa, especially the former.