In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision.  Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.

Law. 11-12 (Nov. 1994) ("The side with the best case almost always wins, and the performance of the lawyers almost never matters. Some of the best lawyering I've ever seen has resulted in spectacular losses. And some of the most bumbling lawyers have had the fortune of attaching themselves to strong, and therefore winning, cases."). 50 . See Attorney Grievance Comm'n of Md. v. Snyder, 368 Md. 242, 793 A.2d 515, 531 (2002) (finding that attorney's failure to research whether his client, a criminal defendant, needed to be present at her initial appearance, as well as his failure to have her arrest warrant recalled once he learned of its issuance, provided sufficient evidence that he had violated MRPC 1.1); Attorney Grievance Comm'n of Md. v. Mooney, 359 Md. 56, 753 A.2d 17, 26-27 (2000) (<HOLDING>). 51 . Stip. Ex. 26 at Beecher00203. 52 . See 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that under texas law the mere representation of a party in a lawsuit does not establish privity between an attorney and his or her client (B) holding client is not liable for actions of attorney who misled client as to the status of case (C) holding that an attorney may only undertake to represent a new client against a former client  where there is no confidential information received from the former client that is in any way relevant to representation of the current client (D) holding that an attorney whose office staff incorrectly instructed a client that he need not appear in court for trial provided incompetent representation (E) holding an attorney is an agent of the client and therefore cannot conspire with the client
holding that under texas law the mere representation of a party in a lawsuit does not establish privity between an attorney and his or her client

the public interest and ‘[considerations based on the allocation of powers within our federal system’ require that the district court defer to local government administrators.” Id. In Sweeton, 27 F.3d at 1166, the Sixth Circuit was very clear that, where “decisional law has changed so that the enjoined behavior, which once might have been a violation of federal law, is no longer a matter of federal law at all” the injunction must be vacated. In light of the fact that no federal right underpins the 1974 decree — as well as the fact that the “local government administrators” in this case appear to favor vacating the decree — the court can identify no reason that the 1974 consent decree should remain in effect. Cf. Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203, 216, 117 S.Ct. 1997, 138 L.Ed.2d 391 (<HOLDING>); Railway Employees v. Wright, 364 U.S. 642, 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that a consent decree should be vacated under rule 60b in light of amendments to the railway labor act (B) holding that a motion to terminate a consent decree was moot because the challenged provisions of the decree had expired (C) holding that a motion to terminate a consent decree was moot because there was no  consent decree left to be terminated (D) holding that a court errs when it refuses to modify an injunction or consent decree in light of  changes in statutory or decisional law (E) holding that statutory authority to modify does not contemplate fundamental changes
holding that a consent decree should be vacated under rule 60b in light of amendments to the railway labor act

claiming the defense counsel is arguing “something ridiculous” is directed at defense counsel’s argument, not at defense counsel. Id. at 713. Telling the jury that they shouldn’t feel bad about taking a long time for a verdict is more akin to calling Appellant’s argument ridiculous than calling his counsel a liar. See id. Because the State’s comments attacked Appellant’s arguments, rather than his counsel personally, the argument did not strike over his shoulders. See Acosta, 411 S.W.3d at 93 (stating that State’s comments suggesting jury not be “fooled” by defense’s “good lawyering” and that argument was “just words from the defense attorney’s mouth,” attacked defense counsel’s arguments, not defense counsel personally); Garcia v. State, 126 S.W.3d 921, 925 (Tex. Crim. App. 2004) (<HOLDING>). Because the argument did not strike over the 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that state did not comment upon defendants failure to testify when it questioned during closing arguments why defendant never gave police the murder weapon because the comment was a valid attack on the credibility of the defendants claim that the homicide was justified (B) holding a prosecutors comments indicating his personal belief in the states witnesses was a fair reply to defense counsels attack on the veracity of the states witnesses (C) holding that states comment that defense was arguing that hogwash that youve heard was states opinion of defenses arguments not an attack on counsels personal integrity (D) holding comment that was heard out of context and not necessarily related to employment of plaintiff was not evidence of discrimination (E) holding the states comment that nobody testified he wasnt the guy was an impermissible comment on appellants right to remain silent in a case in which the only individual who could have contradicted the states evidence was the appellant

holding that state did not comment upon defendants failure to testify when it questioned during closing arguments why defendant never gave police the murder weapon because the comment was a valid attack on the credibility of the defendants claim that the homicide was justified