Q: 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. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
and hiring. H.R.Rep. No. 40(1), 102d Cong., 1st Sess. 92 (1991), reprinted in 1991 U.S.C.C.A.N. 549, 630 (emphasis added). The fact that the Committee listed "discharge" along with "retaliation" shows that Congress intended to make not only retaliatory discharge but also retaliation in general actionable under 1981. In particular, the Committee Report indicates that Congress clearly intended 1981(b) to encompass retaliation against an employee for filing EEOC charges: In cutting back the scope of the rights to "make" and "enforce" contracts[,] Patterson also has been interpreted to eliminate retaliation claims that the courts had previously recognized under section 1981. See, e.g., Overby v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., 884 F.2d 470 (9th Cir. 5 WL 311911, at *5 (E.D.La. May 18, 1995) (<HOLDING>); Adams v. City of Chicago, 865 F.Supp. 445,
Holding statements: (A) holding that a claim of retaliation for filing eeoc charges is cognizable under 1981 (B) holding claim is not cognizable (C) holding claim is cognizable (D) holding that retaliation claims are not cognizable under 42 usc 1981 (E) holding that plaintiffs claim of reduction in work hours in retaliation for her filing of eeoc charge states a cause of action under 1981
A:
(A)