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.
Temple City is a city in Los Angeles County, California. The population was 33,377 at the 2000 census. As of the 2000 census, Caucasians composed the largest ethnic group in Temple City. Temple City is part of a cluster of cities in the west San Gabriel Valley with a growing Asian population.