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.
Wall is a town in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 818 at the 2000 census. The town is most famous for Wall Drug Store, which opened as a small pharmacy during the Depression but eventually developed into a large roadside tourist attraction.