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.
Whitesboro is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,760 at the 2000 census. Whitesboro is named for Ambrose B. White, its founder. It is part of the Sherman–Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prominent Houston attorney Joe Rollins (1918–2008) practiced law in Whitesboro in the 1950s.