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.
Clinton is a town in and the parish seat of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,998 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.