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:rise to the application of a subjective test." Swanson, 135 F.3d at 701. Such a system is one in which case-by-case inquiries are routinely made, such that there is an "individualized governmental assessment of the reasons for the relevant conduct" that "invite[s] considerations of the particular circumstances" involved in the particular case. Smith, 494 U.S. at 884, 110 S.Ct. 1595. Perhaps the best example of such a system, and indeed the one in which this exception originated, is a system of unemployment benefits which requires claimants to show "good cause" as to why they are unable to find work. In Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398, 83 S.Ct. 1790, 10 L.Ed.2d 965 (1963), a Seventh Day Ad . But see Fraternal Order of Police v. City of Newark, 170 F.3d 359, 364-66 (3d Cir.1999) (<HOLDING>). While of course it takes some degree of
Holding statements: (A) holding that 522 permits states only to adopt uniform exemptions (B) holding that a regulation prohibiting excavations below groundwater level was not a taking because the regulation only limited some forms of development but did not decrease market value (C) holding that because a police department regulation prohibiting beards allowed for medical exemptions but not religious exemptions it was not generally applicable under smith (D) holding that dol regulations related to flsa exemptions are enforceable (E) holding that the districts facial hair regulation was discriminatory as applied to the firefighter although the department was not precluded from promulgating a reasonable grooming regulation equally applied to all requiring beards to be neatly trimmed
Solution:
(C)