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.
Christmas Valley is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Oregon, United States. The community of Christmas Valley, named after nearby Christmas Lake, was a real estate development started after World War II, with a post office established in 1963 as a rural station of Silver Lake.