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The Supreme Court of Canada has denied financial compensation to an Ottawa couple who sued Air Canada when, among other things, they could not order a 7Up in French.

Though the top court ruled by a five-to-two margin Tuesday that the airline violated Michel and Lynda Thibodeau’s French-language rights, it found they did not qualify for monetary damages.

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The Federal Court of Canada had awarded them damages of $12,000, but its judgment was set aside by the Federal Court of Appeal, which awarded the couple a lower amount.

The couple, who live in Orléans, filed eight complaints with the official languages commissioner over the English-only service they said they received during three trips they took between January and March 2009.

On a flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Toronto in 2009, Lynda Thibodeau asked in French for a 7Up, Michel Thibodeau said in an affidavit filed with the court. The unilingual English-speaking flight attendant served her a Sprite instead.