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.
Cannon Ball is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sioux County, North Dakota in the United States. It sits in the northeastern part of the county where the Cannonball River meets Lake Oahe of the Missouri River. The population was 864 at the 2000 census.