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.
Ponder is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 507 at the 2000 census. In 1934 Bonnie and Clyde attempted to rob the Ponder State Bank, only to discover it had gone broke the week before.