Beaudoin ruled in July 1993 that the last remaining English-language school overseen by the Montreal Catholic School Commission in Côte-des-Neiges could be redesignated as a French-language school. Several parents of anglophone children argued that the commission made its decision without proper consultation; Beaudoin concluded that the parents did not prove their case. In 1997, Beaudoin dismissed a lawsuit from a Quebec resident who had sued McDonald's for $33,864 after suffering second-degree burns from spilled coffee. The litigant was seated in a car that was not moving at the time of the incident, and Beaudoin ruled that only the Quebec automobile-insurance board (rather than the company) could be held liable for "damage caused by an automobile." The Quebec Court of Appeal later overturned Beaudoin's decision, concluding that there was no link between the litigant's injuries and the use or ownership of a car. Beaudoin reviewed a class-action lawsuit by former Jonquière Wal-Mart employees in 2005, following the company's decision to close their Jonquière branch after a successful unionization drive by the employees. Wal-Mart claimed that the store was not sufficiently profitable, while opponents argued the company's decision was intended to intimidate workers in other branches. Beaudoin ultimately ruled that the lawsuit could not proceed, on the grounds that the dispute with Wal-Mart was the exclusive jurisdiction of the Quebec labour board. The former employees announced they would appeal the decision.