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The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a long-running case over whether the billionaire founder of Apotex deprived his cousins of their rightful share of the generic pharmaceutical giant.

Barry Sherman was found dead with his wife Honey in their Toronto home in 2017 — an apparent double-homicide police have been unable to solve — and the civil case has continued against his estate.

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The cousins said he owed them a share of his fortune because he hadn’t lived up to an obligation to take care of their interests in the family business after their own parents died.

Lower courts have rejected the cousins’ argument and, by refusing today to hear a final appeal, the Supreme Court is effectively saying those rulings were right.

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As usual, the Supreme Court gave no reason for its decision.

In their August 2018 decision, judges with the Ontario Court of Appeal wrote that a lower court judge “did not accept the appellants’ interpretation of that evidence as giving rise to a fiduciary relationship or duty.