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.
Shobonier is an unincorporated community, located on U.S. Route 51, about 10 miles south of Vandalia, Illinois in Fayette County, Illinois. The population was 837 at the 2000 census.