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.
Pound is a village in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 355 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Pound. Village and town were named for Thaddeus Coleman Pound, a Wisconsin state politician who was the grandfather of the poet, Ezra Pound. It is also notable for being the summer retreat of Kiefer Sutherland. Pound is part of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area.