On 19 June 2015, in "Furfaro v. Cannavino", Quebec Court of Appeal Justices Duval-Hesler, St-Pierre and Vauclair rejected hearing the appeal on the grounds that Quebec Superior Court Judge Antonio De Michele was acting as a "Persona Designata" in conducting a judicial recount of the English Montreal School Board elections of 1 November 2014. Therefore, their contention was that any opposition to Judge De Michele's rulings must be heard in Superior Court and not at the Quebec Court of Appeal. They rejected the plaintiff's counsel's arguments that Judge De Michele was, in fact, acting in his capacity as Quebec Superior Court Judge since the hearing took place in a courtroom, with opposing lawyers arguing opposing points, and that the Judge required to make rulings on the validity of votes is supposed to rule based on the law, the main responsibility of a judge.