Property rights are generally litigated in local courts.  The local court in which Ray brought his case applied local law which did not agree with Ray's predetermined conclusion of how the court should rule.  Ray was so convinced he was right, and so consummately overbearing, that he blew a potential malpractice case against (ta-DA!) his own attorneys, who should have known better.

Now you know why Ray Burke is no longer in St. Louis.  Or in the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.  And why Ray lashes out at Pope Francis right there in public!