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.
Fargo is a town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 326 at the 2000 census. Fargo, like many towns in the region, has never fully recovered from the Dust Bowl years.