Q: 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.
that Cook County was justified in discharging Bodenstab because "[i]t would have been too risky to chance returning [Bodenstab] to his previous position as a Doctor of Anesthesiology at Stroger Hospital in view of the recommendations and observations made by PRC Staff." Thus, the Hearing Officer's decision does not support Bodenstab's claim of pretext. Bodenstab also claims that he presented sufficient evidence of pretext, as well as circumstantial evidence of discrimination, by showing that Cook County failed to follow its own internal policies and by pointing to inconsistencies in various witnesses' testimony. Bodenstab, however, did not develop these arguments until his reply brief and thus has waived any such argument. See United States v. Alhalabi, 443 F.3d 605, 611 (7th Cir.2006) (<HOLDING>). In any event, the evidence Bodenstab
Holding statements: (A) holding arguments not appropriately developed in brief are waived (B) holding arguments first raised in reply brief are forfeited (C) holding that arguments raised for the first time in a reply brief are forfeited (D) holding that arguments which are not sufficiently developed are waived (E) holding that arguments not fully developed until a reply brief are waived
A:
holding arguments not appropriately developed in brief are waived