Court rejects Kinsky appeal

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Franz Ullrich Kinsky, of the aristocratic Kinsky family, to review a legal case he lost laying claim to Prague's Kinsky Palace, now owned by the state. Judge Martina Skodova said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court found Kinsky's appeal was unsubstantiated, allowing the verdict to stand.

Mr Kinsky has lodged a total of 157 lawsuits against the Czech Republic to try and regain property seized by the state following World War II. His family was accused of collaboration with the Nazis. The value of the property Mr Kinsky has been suing for has been estimated by some at 40 billion crowns, the equivalent of a little less than 2 billion U.S. dollars.