TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: their quest had generally confirmed their suspicion. Thereafter it was incumbent upon them to make a decision as to their course of action with “reasonable dispatch.” Occidental Life Ins. Co. of North Carolina v. Pat Ryan & Associates, Inc., supra, 496 F.2d at 1268; Johns Hopkins University v. Hutton, supra, 488 F.2d at 917; Baumel v. Rosen, supra, 412 F.2d at 574. The question, therefore, is whether plaintiffs were guilty of unreasonable delay during the period from May 20, 1969 to August 27, 1969. Considering the number of plaintiffs involved and the time necessary for counsel to research legal authorities and draft and prepare the original complaint, this Court concludes that there was no unreasonable delay. Cf. Johns Hopkins University v. Hutton, 343 F.Supp. 245, 255-56 (D.Md.1972) (<HOLDING>), rev’d, 488 F.2d 912 (4th Cir. 1973) (in jury 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that because the plaintiff had not perfected service within 120 days of filing the complaint the complaint was subject to mandatory dismissal (B) holding inter alia that 130 days was reasonable period for researching and drafting of complaint (C) holding that 120 days notice was satisfied by 30 days work plus 90 days pay (D) holding that delays of 115 days and 101 days were both substantial (E) holding that a difference between 384 days prepreference average number of days to payment and 547 days preference average number of days to payment did not make the payments out of the ordinary course of business

SOLUTION: holding that because the plaintiff had not perfected service within 120 days of filing the complaint the complaint was subject to mandatory dismissal

PROBLEM: evaluate each piece of evidence according to its independent worth. B. The Copyright Act of 1909 The plaintiff renewed its copyright in The URANTIA Book in 1983, by which time the Copyright Act of 1976 had become effective. However, the renewal section under which the book falls, Section 304, is identical to that of Section 24 of the Copyright Act of 1909. Furthermore, as the plaintiff correctly states, “[t]he passage of the [1976 Act] did not alter the definition of a Svork for hire’ for the purpose of renewing a copyright originally registered under the [1909 Act].... Thus, whether The URANTIA Book is a ‘eommis-sioned work’ must be decided under the Copyright Act of 1909.” (Pl.’s Br. at 5 n. 4.) See Stewart v. Abend, 495 U.S. 207, 217, 110 S.Ct. 1750, 1758, 109 L.Ed.2d 184 (1990) (<HOLDING>); Forward v. Thorogood, 985 F.2d 604, 606 n. 2 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that under illinois law interpreting the meaning of a contract is a question of law determined by the court (B) holding renewal rights in pre1978 works require court to look to the language of and case law interpreting  24 (C) recognizing a court must look beyond the plain language of a statute when the literal interpretation would lead to an absurd result (D) holding that if statutory language is plain and unambiguous this court will not look beyond the same to divine legislative intent (E) holding that in construing statute courts must first look to its plain language

SOLUTION: holding that under illinois law interpreting the meaning of a contract is a question of law determined by the court

PROBLEM: This Court has recognized that “courts will not hold conduct to constitute a nuisance where authority therefor exists by virtue of legislative enactment.” Smith v. Tenn. Valley Auth., 436 F.Supp. 151, 154 (E.D.Tenn.1977); accord N.C. ex rel. Cooper v. Tenn. Valley Auth., 615 F.3d 291, 309-10 (4th Cir.2010) (operation of TVA power plants under permits required by Congress and the EPA cannot be deemed a public nuisance). Here, the TVA Act authorizes TVA to acquire and construct transmission lines and distribute electric power, and affords TVA those powers that may be necessary or appropriate to exercise that right. See 16 U.S.C. §§ 831c(g)-(j), 831d(i); see also 16 U.S.C. § 831k, 831x. Thus, the conduct complained of in the complaint cannot constitute a public nuisance. Accord id. (<HOLDING>); Morris v. Tenn. Valley Auth., 345 F.Supp. 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that it is the legislative authority of the union that must  make an act a crime (B) holding ordinary and necessary concomitants to operating railroad terminal authorized by specific grant of legislative franchise not nuisance (C) holding that to negate coverage under an exclusion insurer must show that its construction is the only construction that could fairly be placed thereon (D) holding that substantive criminal statute could not be applied retrospectively because there was nothing  in the language or the legislative history that was a clear and unequivocal expression of legislative intent to rebut presumption of prospective application only (E) holding that the construction of a hydroelectric generating facility could not constitute a nuisance because it was being constructed under legislative authority

SOLUTION:
holding that it is the legislative authority of the union that must  make an act a crime