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.
claim that his assignment of an examination grade or a final grade is communication protected by the First Amendment. As does any communicative act, assigning a letter grade sends a message to the recipient. The message communicated by the letter grade "A" is virtually indistinguishable from the message communicated by a formal written evaluation indicating "excellent work." Both communicative acts represent symbols that transmit a unique message. Because the assignment of a letter grade is symbolic communication intended to send a specific message to the student, the individual professor's communicative act is entitled to some measure of First Amendment protection. Cf. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 505-06, 89 S.Ct. 733, 735-36, 21 L.Ed.2d 731 (1969) (<HOLDING>); Brown v. Louisiana, 383 U.S. 131, 141-42, 86
Holding statements: (A) holding that raising chickens is not an expressive act for the purposes of the first amendment (B) holding that a public school may not without evidence of substantial disruption punish students for wearing armbands protesting the vietnam war (C) holding that students action wearing black armbands was expressive conduct entitled to first amendment protection (D) holding that wearing black armband to school to protest vietnam war was expressive conduct (E) holding that participating in community service is not expressive conduct
A:
(C)