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.
Eagle Butte is a city in Dewey and Ziebach counties in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The population was 619 at the 2000 census. It is the tribal headquarters of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.