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Season tickets for the Toronto Maple Leafs are so hard to get they’re worth going to court over.

A Toronto lawyer who won the right to fight for a larger share of her father’s multi-million dollar fortune lost her claim to Leafs tickets in his name after a judge ruled they actually belong to Chaim Neuberger’s former company.

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It will be difficult and expensive for Edie Neuberger to replace the season tickets she lost in the judgment, should she want to.

The Neuberger ruling delivered on July 16, 2015 and published online on June 1 does not mention where the seats are located in the ACC. They were purchased more than 50 years ago, when the team was still playing at Maple Leaf Gardens, and no seat licence was purchased at the time.

Deceased real estate mogul Chaim Neuberger was the sole member of his family to survive the Nazis in Poland and emigrated to Canada after the Second World War. He and another Polish immigrant, Harry Sporer, together built up a “tremendously successful” real estate and construction business in Toronto. The partners each amassed “assets in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to Justice Laurence A. Pattillo’s ruling. When Chaim Neuberger died aged 86 on Sept. 25, 2012, his fortune, worth more than $100 million, was divided between his two daughters, Edie and Myra, according to a previous ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal.