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:the public interest and '[considerations based on the allocation of powers within our federal system' require that the district court defer to local government administrators." Id. In Sweeton, 27 F.3d at 1166, the Sixth Circuit was very clear that, where "decisional law has changed so that the enjoined behavior, which once might have been a violation of federal law, is no longer a matter of federal law at all" the injunction must be vacated. In light of the fact that no federal right underpins the 1974 decree as well as the fact that the "local government administrators" in this case appear to favor vacating the decree the court can identify no reason that the 1974 consent decree should remain in effect. Cf. Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203, 216, 117 S.Ct. 1997, 138 L.Ed.2d 391 (<HOLDING>); Railway Employees v. Wright, 364 U.S. 642,
Holding statements: (A) holding that a consent decree should be vacated under rule 60b in light of amendments to the railway labor act (B) holding that a motion to terminate a consent decree was moot because the challenged provisions of the decree had expired (C) holding that a motion to terminate a consent decree was moot because there was no consent decree left to be terminated (D) holding that a court errs when it refuses to modify an injunction or consent decree in light of changes in statutory or decisional law (E) holding that statutory authority to modify does not contemplate fundamental changes
Solution:
(D)