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.
Little America is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 56 at the 2000 census. The community got its name from the base camp the polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd set up in the Antarctic in 1928.