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.
Newry is an unincorporated textile mill village in Oconee County, South Carolina, United States. Newry has a post office with the ZIP Code of 29665; the population of the ZCTA for 29665 was 52 at the 2000 census. Newry is on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.