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.
University, Mississippi is not an official government based city or town but is the official designated name for the area encompassing the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) campus, in Lafayette County, Mississippi within the city of Oxford. Its official United States Postal Service designation is "University, Mississippi 38677".