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.
Input: Mathews has named a number of white employees whom he believes were similarly situated and were not terminated. From an examination of the affidavits in the record, it appears that employees named Schmidt, Hoile, Warner, Blanford and "Moonehicken" possibly had attendance problems. See generally Flint, Figueroa, Gamble, Hines and Wedge Affs. However, these affidavits, besides being primarily hearsay and speculation, contain only general statements regarding these individuals' behavior that do not meet Mathews' burden of establishing that these Caucasian employees also repeatedly violated Giant policies, that Giant policies required the employees' termination and that the employees were not terminated. See Evans v. Techs. Applications & Serv. Co., 80 F.3d 954, 962 (4th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). Therefore, Mathews has failed to establish
Holding statements: (A) holding that affidavits that are conclusory and based on hearsay can not be used to oppose motion for summary judgment (B) holding that party may not rely on conclusory statements or an argument that the affidavits in support of the motion for summary judgment are not credible (C) holding that statements in affidavits based solely on hearsay are inadmissible as summary judgment evidence (D) holding that unsworn statements signed under penalty of peijury can be used to oppose a motion for summary judgment (E) holding affidavits based on conclusory allegations insufficient at summary judgment
Output:
holding that party may not rely on conclusory statements or an argument that the affidavits in support of the motion for summary judgment are not credible