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.
Chinese Camp is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tuolumne County, California, United States. The population was 146 at the 2000 census. It lies in the grassy foothills of the Sierra near the southern end of California's Gold Country.