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. 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.
Problem:property where the entire cost exceeds $10,000. A school board cannot avoid this bidding requirement by contracting for materials or services "piecemeal" for the purpose of obtaining prices under $10,000. 24 P.S. 7-751(f). Bennett argues that the Board clearly violated these sections of the Code because the dugouts were constructed "piecemeal" at a cost in excess of $10,000. Bennett also argues that limiting his remedy to the appeal process of Section 2451 penalizes taxpayers for the mistakes of auditors. We understand Bennett's concerns over the actions of the school officials in this case, but we cannot ignore the holdings of our courts that auditors' reports must be challenged exclusively as provided by statute. Skelton v. Lower Merion Township, 318 Pa. 356, 178 A. 387 (1935) (<HOLDING>); Festa v. Derry Township, 49 Pa.Cmwlth. 297,
Holding statements: (A) holding age discrimination claim barred (B) holding that the appellant waived his claim on appeal because he failed to address that claim in either his application for a coa or his brief on appeal (C) holding that a tax collectors assumpsit claim was barred for having failed to submit his claim to the township auditors (D) holding disability discrimination claim barred (E) recognizing that an a3 claim for equitable relief could survive despite a claim for benefits under a1b but dismissing plaintiffs a3 claim because it was simply one for benefits based solely on claims that fiduciary failed to interpret plan properly failed to adequately investigate the claim failed to properly administer the claim and failed to administer the plan for the benefit of the beneficiaries
Solution:
(C)