Impressive-sounding recitations of the requirements for establishing a class action, but not a trace of the inquiry a judge is supposed to perform into the fairness of the settlement and the basis for the fee.

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There's not much to it, but at least there's a trace of punk rebellion in the orgy of destruction visited on a comfortably middle-class suburban home -- even if the coda dubiously suggests that this could be the shortcut to social status and parental respect.

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