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.
Leonard is a city in Fannin County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,846 at the 2000 census. J.B. Stokes, who was a member of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, was born in Leonard.