He also rejected the beguiling idea (some say it has beguiledThe Economist) that all good things tend to go together that free markets go hand in hand with pluralism, democracy and the American way.
There's much handwringing about how the Grubmans and Blodgets of Wall Street beguiled investors during the tech boom into buying stocks that had all the staying power of a mayfly.
They became portals that used search (and email) as entry points, then beguiledthe users who came for those tools into sticking around until they could be monetized adequately.
But he added that was not the fault of Mr Noble or his legal advisers, and the court should "not be beguiled" into allowing the family, six-and-a-half years after Mr Lavelle's death, to start the process all over again.