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: Consider Input: would, in general, slow down the dispute resolution process." Id. at 946, 115 S.Ct. 1920. Moreover, it was rejected as "legally erroneous," for the "basic objective in this area is not to resolve disputes in the quickest manner possible, no matter what the parties' wishes, but to ensure that commercial arbitration agreements, like other contracts, are enforced according to their terms and according to the intentions of the parties." Id. at 946, 115 S.Ct. 1920. C. In This Case, The Question Of Arbitrability Is For The Court The second question is whether the power to determine arbitrability resides with the court or the AAA Panel. The answer turns upon what the parties agreed to about that question in the Merger Agreement. First Option 543, 546-547, 84 S.Ct. 909, 11 L.Ed.2d 898 (1964)(<HOLDING>). Similarly, a disagreement about whether an
Holding statements: (A) holding that a court should decide whether an arbitration agreement survived a corporate merger and bound the resulting corporation (B) holding that a court should decide whether the arbitration contract bound parties who did not sign the agreement (C) holding trial court must decide whether to compel arbitration of personal injury claim of party who was not signatory to arbitration agreement (D) holding that in ruling on a motion to compel arbitration a court must consider 1 whether the parties have entered into a valid arbitration agreement 2 whether an arbitrable issue exists and 3 whether the right to arbitration has been waived (E) holding that a gateway dispute about whether the parties are bound by a given arbitration clause raises a question of arbitrability for a court to decide

Output: (A)

Input: Consider Input: and the prosecutor, the Court finds, one, there is a factual basis for the entry of the plea[.]" We conclude that the summary of the facts presented by the prosecutor and Defendant's stipulations are sufficient to establish a factual basis for Defendant's guilty plea. Specifically, the prosecutor's statements that the victim "is 80 years of age" and "is crippled in her knees with arthritis and requires a crutch to walk" and that Defendant "told his mother that he would kill her and cut her heart out[,]" "grabbed the victim[,]" and "slung her across the room twice and then hit her with her crutch" provided a sufficient factual basis to support Defendant's guilty plea. See N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-32.1(a) & (e); see also State v. May, 159 N.C. App. 159, 166, 583 S.E.2d 302, 306 (2003) (<HOLDING>). Accordingly, we conclude this argument has no
Holding statements: (A) holding that right to challenge factual basis is waived by guilty plea (B) holding that district court abused discretion in denying motion to withdraw plea based on intervening supreme court decision that may have rendered factual basis of plea insufficient (C) holding that based on the facts presented by the state and the defendants stipulation to the existence of a factual basis for his plea the court properly determined a factual basis for the plea existed (D) holding that although defendant is not entitled to appeal from his guilty plea as a matter of right his arguments challenging the factual basis for his guilty plea are reviewable pursuant to a petition for writ of certiorari (E) holding that district court properly considered a police report that the defendant had stipulated contained a factual basis for his plea

Output: (C)

Input: Consider Input: powers of a President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; it relied instead on the general language of the portion of the Pennsylvania Constitution which provides that these powers are only available "[ujntil otherwise provided by law," and that "[t]he exercise of all supervisory and administrative powers detailed in this section sixteen [of Schedule to Article 5, Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania] shall be subject to the supervisory and administrative control of the Supreme Court." Pa. Const, sched. art. 5, 16(j). Both the supervisory and administrative powers of the President Judge of the Traffic Court and the supervisory and administrative powers of the President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas are detailed in section sixteen of the Schedule to Art 3d Cir.1989) (<HOLDING>). The cases cited by plaintiff are not to the
Holding statements: (A) recognizing similar duties (B) recognizing that illinois prison regulations for minor disciplinary infractions create discretion in a number of waysneither the drafting of regulations nor their interpretation can be reduced to an exact science our past decisions suggest however that the most common manner in which a state creates a liberty interest is by establishing substantive predicates to govern official decisionmaking and further by mandating the outcome to be reached upon a finding that the relevant criteria have been metthompson 490 us at 462 109 sct at 1909 citations omitted if however the ultimate resolution is left to the discretion of the prison officials then no protectible liberty interest is created pardo 946 f2d at 1284 moreover thompson required that the state law include explicitly mandatory language ie specific directives to the decisionmaker that if the regulations substantive predicates are present a particular outcome must follow in order to create a liberty interest id at 1281 quoting thompson 490 us at 463 109 sct at 1910 when a state chooses to establish procedural guidelines it does not create an independent substantive right id at 1282 in williams for instance the seventh circuit court of appeals cited a number of cases which held that there is no liberty interest in the following areas no liberty interest in a particular wing of a prison no liberty interest in remaining in the prisons general population no liberty interest in remaining in a certain state institution and no liberty interest in remaining in the state prison system rather than the federal system williams 837 f2d at 309 only statutes or rules attaching consequences to particular circumstances give prisoners liberty or property interests wallace v robinson 940 f2d 243 246 7th cir1991the sixth circuit court of appeals found that a liberty interest was created by a tennessee regulation long v norris 929 f2d 1111 1117 6th cir1991 the long court found that the regulation contained mandatory language sufficient to give rise to a liberty interest citing to the word shall as the regulation used it also the ninth circuit court of appeals ruled that a washington prison regulation created a liberty interest protected by the fourteenth amendment mendoza v blodgett 960 f2d 1425 1431 9th cir1992 but see caraballosandoval v honsted 35 f3d 521 11th cir1994 finding that no liberty interest was created by a regulation that gave the warden discretion to restrict visitation for reasons such as securitythe illinois statute in question that might give rise to liberty interest is illinois revised statute chapter 38 paragraph 100372 subsection f subsection provides in pertinent part as followsall of the institutions and facilities of the department shall permit every committed person to receive visitors except in ease of abuse of the visiting privilege or when the chief administrative officer determines that such visiting would be harmful or dangerous to the security safety or morale of the institution or facility clergy religious chaplain and attorney visiting privileges shall be as broad as the security of the institution or facility will allowillrevstat ch 38 para 100372 district courts in this circuit have addressed subsection f and found that a liberty interest was created see jenkins v lane no 86 c 0059 1989 wl 84474 ndill july 20 1989 logan v lane 83 c 2504 1989 wl 112726 ndill sept 15 1989 in 1987 judge shadur addressed the language of subsection united states ex rel adams v oleary 659 fsupp 736 739 ndill 1987 in adams judge shadur held that subsection certainly creates a liberty interest in receiving visitors that case cited olim v wa sufficiently definite to constitute objective criteria as defined by olimin addition the seventh circuit acknowledged the adams holding and the possibility that subsection created a liberty interest but the appellate court found that the issue remained open for the seventh circuit see mayo v lane 867 f2d 374 376 7th cir1989 similarly the illinois appellate court interpreted subsection as creating a right for inmates to receive visitors swope v northern illinois gas co 251 illapp3d 850 191 illdee 251 623 ne2d 841 1993 in view of these decisions this court is persuaded that subsection contains language which is sufficiently m h cir 1988 (C) holding that the inmate had no cognizable due process claim because he had no liberty interest in being free from disciplinary segregation (D) holding that when an employee had his duties changed but had no interest created or protected by the constitution or state law in those duties then no liberty interest claim was stated (E) holding that one claim was not preempted because it did not allege the violation of duties created by any welfare plan but a violation of duties as a past employer
Output: (D)