Teacher: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.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: and her poor motivation, undermined her credibility also is supported by the record. See Thomas v. Barnhart, 278 F.3d 947, 959 (9th Cir.2 easons for giving less weight to the contradicted opinion of treating physician Dr. Nelson where: the opinion was conclusory, see Meanel v. Apfel, 172 F.3d 1111, 1113-14 (9th Cir.1999) (<HOLDING>); the opinion relied in part on Smith's
Holding statements: (A) holding that a conclusory opinion may be rejected (B) holding that the weight given to a treating physicians opinion is limited if the opinion consists only of conclusory statements (C) holding that the weight given a treating physicians opinion is limited if the opinion consists only of conclusory statements (D) holding that a treating physicians opinion may be rejected if it is brief conclusory and unsupported by medical evidence (E) holding that allegations against nondiverse defendants must be factual not conclusory because conclusory allegations do not state a claim
Student:
holding that the weight given to a treating physicians opinion is limited if the opinion consists only of conclusory statements