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. 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.
Problem:of the RIF, Dr. Mereish, a pharmacologist, was not conducting research at the USAMRIID but rather was on detail to the Biological Arms Control Treaty Organization. Dr. Assaad, a physiologist, was working on developing a vaccine for ricin utilizing a particular kind of antigen. His research, however, was superseded soon after he was discharged in favor of new ricin research based on a recombinant molecular construct, which is an entirely different source than the antigen upon which Dr. Assaad was focusing. Finally, Dr. Cros-land, a physiologist, was investigating bo-tulinum toxins at the time he was laid off. He was attempting to develop a cell line that would respond to botulinum toxins, in order to facilitate further research of these agents. After he was lai 1176, 1183 (5th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). If we failed to allow proffered
Holding statements: (A) holding that an employee may establish that the legitimate reason for an employment decision offered by an employer is pretextual by showing by a preponderance of the evidence either that the discrim inatory reason was the true reason motivating the employers conduct or that the profferred legitimate reason was false (B) recognizing as a legitimate reason for conducting layoffs a firms need to retain employees with the contemporary skills necessary to assimilate new technologies (C) holding that a firms decision to implement a reductioninforce to meet its budgetary goals during a business downturn was a legitimate reason for terminating an employee (D) holding that even an incorrect belief that an employees performance is inadequate can be a legitimate reason for an adverse employment action (E) holding that drugrelated misconduct is a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for termination
Solution:
holding that an employee may establish that the legitimate reason for an employment decision offered by an employer is pretextual by showing by a preponderance of the evidence either that the discrim inatory reason was the true reason motivating the employers conduct or that the profferred legitimate reason was false