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.
Brownsville is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,449 at the 2000 census. The 2007 estimate is 1,755 residents. It is the setting for the fictional Castle Rock, Oregon in the film Stand by Me.