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:Talasila, Inc. v. United States, 240 F.3d 1064, 1066 (Fed.Cir.) ("[Plaintiff] must be represented by counsel in order to pursue its claim against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims."), reh'g and reh'g en banc denied (Fed. Cir. 2001); Finast Metal Prods., Inc. v. United States, 12 Cl.Ct. 759, 761 (1987) ("[A] corporate 'person' can no more be represented in court by a non-lawyer even its own president and sole shareholder than can any individual."); Affourtit v. United States, 79 Fed.Cl. 776, 779 (2006) ("A corporation appearing before the United States Court of Federal Claims ... must be represented by an attorney."). This rule applies despite possible financial hardship imposed on the plaintiffs. See Richdel, Inc. v. Sunspool Corp., 699 F.2d 1366, 1366 (Fed.Cir.1983) (<HOLDING>); see also Balbach v. United States, 119
Holding statements: (A) recognizing that the sixth amendment guarantees a defendant the right to counsel and the right to waive counsel (B) recognizing a defendants constitutional right to be represented by counsel of his own choice (C) holding that the plaintiffs substantial financial hardship did not waive the rule requiring corporations to be represented by counsel (D) holding that a corporate entity must be represented by licensed counsel (E) holding that juveniles may waive right to counsel only upon advice of counsel
Solution:
recognizing that the sixth amendment guarantees a defendant the right to counsel and the right to waive counsel