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.
Input: spite of 14. Again, in that decision this Court held that an award of attorney fees was inappropriate. Therefore, we were not required to address the issue whether 14 barred such an award, and our opinion is not precedent on that issue. Additionally, the fact that an action seeks a declaratory judgment and thus purportedly falls within an exception to 14 does not necessarily open the doors of the State treasury to legal attack. The exception afforded declaratory-judgment actions under 14 generally applies only when the action seeks "construction of a statute and how it should be applied in a given situation," Aland v. Graham, 287 Ala. 226, 280, 250 So.2d 677, 679 (1971), and not when an action seeks other relief. Curry v. Woodstock Slag Corp., 242 Ala. 379, 6 So.2d 479 (1942) (<HOLDING>). Section 14 bars an action characterized as a
Holding statements: (A) holding that 14 prevents an action against the state when a result favorable to the plaintiff would directly affect a contract or property right of the state (B) holding that doctrine does not violate due process (C) holding that 14 prohibits the awarding of costs against the state as a defendant (D) holding that a declaratoryjudgment action that seeks only a declaration to construe the law and direct the parties and no other relief does not violate 14 (E) holding that a declaratoryjudgment action against the state that would affect property in which the state had an interest was barred by 14
Output:
(D)