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.

Q: is adverse to its interests. Lamar cites no authority establishing that either "fact" was material to determining whether City exceeded the scope of its powers by surrendering and contracting away zoning authority that would otherwise have applied to Lamar's efforts to rebuild or relocate eight of the forty-two signs identified in the Agreement. For reasons we explain, neither factual contention prevented the entry of summary judgment in favor of City as a matter of law. We have already explained that the Agreement hindered City's zoning authority, and that zoning authority is an exercise of police powers. City thus established all that was necessary to demonstrate that the Agreement exceeded the scope of City's powers in violation of section 432.070. Stewart, 165 S.W.2d at 629 (<HOLDING>). It is true that "[t]he due process clauses of
Holding statements: (A) recognizing governmental interest in rehabilitation (B) holding that a local governmental body exceeds its jurisdiction under crcp 106a4 when it exercises discretion it does not have (C) holding that if a contract surrenders or contracts away governmental functions then it exceeds the scope of a governmental entitys powers and is void (D) holding governmental immunity is no defense to contractual liability (E) holding section 1010215 does not waive governmental immunity merely because a governmental action falls within the listed governmental functions thus further inquiry under the act is necessary

A: (C)
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Q: a right to enjoy over the land of another for the benefit of the easement holder's land, but it does not create an interest in the land itself." (footnote omitted; emphasis added)). 2 . 25 Am. Jur. 2d Easements and Licenses 100 (2004) (footnotes omitted); see Cameron v. Barton, Ky., 272 S.W.2d 40, 42 (1954) ("Appellant finally contends that the easement in controversy was extinguished by merger when a former owner of the dominant estate bought an adjoining lot which offered a means of ingress and egress to and from the Highway Department's property. The answer to this contention is that the doctrine of merger could not apply because the former owner of the dominant estate did not acquire the ser-vient estate." (emphasis added)); Sievers v. Flynn, 305 Ky. 325, 204 S.W.2d 364 (1947) (<HOLDING>); City of Franklin v. St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Holding statements: (A) holding that owners of a dominant estate had a duty to keep the easement in a proper state of repair to avoid damaging the servient estate through erosion (B) holding that the burden on the servient estate cannot be increased without the consent of the owners of the servient estate and that the owner of the dominant estate to which the appurtenant easement is attached has no power to convey or expand use of that easement in connection with a tract of land owned by another (C) holding that an easement is not a separate estate when dominant and servient tracts are under the same ownership (D) holding that an express easement ran with the dominant estate (E) recognizing that the dominant easement owner not the servient estate owner bears responsibility for maintaining an easement

A: (C)
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Q: the protection of [a lesser standard of review] but are subject to de novo review." In re Kretzinger, 103 F.3d 943, 946 (10th Cir.1996) (quotation omitted); see also Brue v. Gonzales, 464 F.3d 1227, 1232 (10th Cir.2006) (discussing vs., 470 F.3d 509, 513-14 (2d Cir.2006) (finding legal error when "[a]lthough the BIA cited the proper legal standard at the outset of its decision, it failed to apply this deferential standard of review when evaluating the IJ's credibility finding"). B Under 8 C.F.R. 1003.1(d)(3)©️, the BIA cannot "engage in de novo review of findings of fact determined by an [IJ]." Instead, the BIA reviews those facts found by the IJ including credibility determinations only to determine whether they are clearly erroneous. Id.; see also RamirezPeyro, 477 F.3d at 641 (<HOLDING>). "A finding is 'clearly erroneous' when
Holding statements: (A) recognizing that factual findings were clearly erroneous where the record before the court was simply devoid of any basis for the district courts conclusion (B) holding that the lower court is the factfinding body and that its findings of fact will not be set aside on appellate review unless they are clearly erroneous (C) holding that appellate court must defer to all implied factual findings supported by record (D) recognizing that the bia must defer to the factual findings of the ij unless they are clearly erroneous (E) holding that this court will only set aside district courts factual findings when they are clearly erroneous

A:
(D)
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