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.

adopted in United States v. Mykytiuk, 415 F.3d 606, 608 (7th Cir.2005), for sentences within the guidelines range cannot be reconciled with the advisory character of the guidelines established in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005). This court rejected the same contention in Mykytiuk, 415 F.3d at 607 ("[WJhile a per se or conclusively presumed reasonableness test would undo the Supreme Court's merits analysis in Booker, a clean slate that ignores the proper Guidelines range would be inconsistent with the remedial opinion."); see Hankton, 463 F.3d at 630 n. 5 (dismissing as "ridiculous" the argument that applying Mykytiuk's rebuttable presumption renders guidelines mandatory); United States v. Williams, 436 F.3d 767, 769 (7th Cir.2006) (<HOLDING>). Black alone argues that it was error to
Holding statements: (A) recognizing that mykytiuk avoids conflict with booker (B) recognizing conflict between circuits (C) recognizing the conflict (D) recognizing an exception to the conflict rule where the conflict arose after the award of the contract (E) recognizing conflict
(A)