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.

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Dube, who held a hearing on the summary judgment motions on December 11, 2003. On January 14, 2004, Judge Dube issued his R & R, which recommended that Plaintiffs Motion for Summary Judgment be granted and that Defendant's Motion be denied, thereby reversing the decision of the Appeals Council. Having received objections from both parties, the R & R is now ripe for consideration by this Court. Analysis The issues appealed from the Appeals Council are purely questions of law. Although a more restrictive standard of review applies if an appeal of a final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security is based on that decision's factual findings, no presumption of validity attaches to the Commissioner's conclusions of law. See Cornelius v. Sullivan, 936 F.2d 1143, 1145-46 (11th Cir.1991) (<HOLDING>). Therefore; the Court must conduct its own
Holding statements: (A) holding that although the district court was not required to discuss each of the factors on the record a decision to dismiss stands a better chance on appeal if the appellate court has the benefit of the district courts reasoning (B) holding that the best interest of the child was the proper standard to apply in determining whether blood tests should be conducted (C) holding the courts scope of review is limited to determining whether the commissioner applied the correct legal standards and whether the record as a whole contains substantial evidence to support the commissioners findings of fact (D) recognizing that when reviewing for clear error we usually must reverse if the district court applied incorrect legal standards to reach its findings (E) holding the district court can reverse the commissioners decision based on her failure to apply the correct law or to provide the reviewing court with sufficient reasoning for determining that the proper legal analysis has been conducted

Ex Output:
(E)

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evidence showing that the defendants used the mark selectively or that they failed to use it pervasively in all their commercial dealings, even if these dealings were low in volume. Furthermore, though the Allard Court granted ownership rights to the defendants based only on oral testimony of various "solicitations" and insubstantial documentary evidence of prior use, the Court noted that there was also good evidence of widespread public recognition of the defendants' use of the service mark. Evidence of public recognition is only necessary in cases requiring proof of secondary meaning, but such evidence may be probative of a party's actual use of a mark in cases where secondary meaning is not required. See id.; see also Florida v. Real Juices, Inc., 330 F.Supp. 428, 431 (M.D.Fla.1971) (<HOLDING>). Public recognition is probative of a party's
Holding statements: (A) holding that the burden is on the plaintiff (B) holding that for the purposes of standing to bring an action to recover on a contract privity is established by proving the defendant was a party to an enforceable contract with either the plaintiff or a party who assigned its cause of action to the plaintiff (C) holding that the plaintiff established a right to a slogan based on evidence of public recognition of its use by the plaintiff (D) holding that a plaintiff had established a primafacie failuretohire case notwithstanding evidence that the position sought by the plaintiff was ultimately filled with a person of the same race as the plaintiff (E) holding that mere use of a road will not make a road a public road even though such use is with the knowledge and consent of the landowner unless the use is accompanied by recognition by public authority or by its maintainance sic

Ex Output:
(C)

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(explaining that Habeas Counsel was "finally ... able to retrieve [the] materials from prior counsel"; that "[t]he boxes were a mess"; and that Habeas Counsel was "on trial for several weeks and could not devote needed attention to this project" (emphases added)).) And after retrieving and reorganizing the materials, Habeas Counsel allowed another forty-seven days to elapse before he sent the Coram Nobis Petition on October 16, 2006-notwithstanding when it was actually stamped filed. Cf. Lee v. Portuondo, No. 02-CV-3990, 2008 WL 22173078, at *2 (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 29, 2003) (concluding that the petitioner's three attempts to obtain files in the one-year limitations period did not constitute a diligent effort); Lewis v. Walsh, No. 03-CV-1932, 2003 WL 21729840, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. July 25, 2003) (<HOLDING>). But even assuming that Petitioner's and
Holding statements: (A) holding that agency demand letters are not suits (B) holding demand letter written prior to and during litigation absolutely privileged (C) holding that petitioners sending sporadic letters requesting documents written with lengthy delays between each letter was not a sufficiently diligent effort (D) holding that documents did not substantially comply where copies of letter of credit and promissory note were submitted and letter of credit required originals (E) holding defendants were entitled to a decision on the merits on rule 11 sanctions where they substantially complied with rule 11c1a by sending a letter rather than serving a motion

Ex Output:
(C)