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.
Blue Springs is a village in Union County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 144 at the 2000 census. Located near Tupelo in northeastern Mississippi, the village is the site of Toyota's eighth North American vehicle assembly plant, slated to produce the company's Prius hybrid vehicle beginning in 2010 . Groundbreaking for the facility was held on April 18, 2007.