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The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has barred a neo-Nazi group from inheriting the estate of a white supremacist Canadian man.

Thursday, the court confirmed the decision to prevent the National Alliance, a violent West Virginia-based neo-Nazi group, from receiving a collection of coins and artifacts worth about $250,000.

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Harry Robert McCorkill, a retired professor from Saint John, N.B., left his valuable possessions to the hate group in his will before he died in 2004. They included Greek and Roman coins that have been displayed at museums, Nazi memorabilia and a human skull.

McCorkill’s sister contested the will in 2013 on the grounds it violated public policy, arguing the valuables would benefit a racist group linked to assassinations and bombings.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre filed an affidavit supporting Ms. McCorkill. The Centre for Israel & Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai Brith Canada and the province of New Brunswick also intervened on her side.