Detailed Instructions: 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.
Problem:of the franchisee to comply with any lawful provision of the franchise agreement and to cure such failure after being given written notice thereof and a reasonable opportunity, which in no event need be more than 30 days, to cure such failure." Id. In the instant case, defendants argue that they have "cured" their breaches by "amending the tax returns." While this may amount to a cure with respect to defendants' falsification of financial reports, it certainly does not amount to a cure with regard to defendants' other breaches. Plaintiff certainly had good cause for terminating the franchise agreement due to defendants' other breaches and these have not yet been cured. See Two Men and a Truck/International Inc. v. Two Men and a Truck/Kalamazoo, Inc., 955 F.Supp. 784 (W.D.Mich.1997) (<HOLDING>). Plaintiffs request for an order enforcing the
Holding statements: (A) holding that franchisors have a duty to act in good faith and with commercial reasonableness when terminating franchise agreements (B) holding franchisor could not arbitrarily terminate franchise agreement as it would be a disregard of franchisees interests under the agreement (C) holding that under michigan franchise investment law franchisees failure to comply with lawful provisions in franchise agreements by failing to pay royalties and advertising fees and failing to file monthly sales reports constituted good cause for franchisors termination of agreements where franchisor gave notice of termination in writing and franchisees made no effort to cure (D) holding that litigating franchise dispute in michigan does not require that michigan law govern dispute as michigan franchise investment law does not expressly void choice of law provisions in franchise agreement (E) holding that franchisees tax evasion scheme provided cause for termination
Solution:
holding that franchisors have a duty to act in good faith and with commercial reasonableness when terminating franchise agreements