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.
Clarkston is a town in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 688 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. Clarkston is most noted for being the last home of Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon. He is buried in Clarkston and every other year a pageant commemorates his life.