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.
Q: fees, which the government opposed. The government contended that Wagner was not a prevailing party, and even if she were, the government was substantially justified in its position throughout the litigation; in either case, Wagner would not be awarded the fees she sought. We denied Wagner's motion. In our Order, filed on August 26, 2008, we stated that in order to be a "prevailing party" under the EAJA, a party must establish that a federal court's actions resulted in a "material alteration of the legal relationship of the parties" and that the alteration was "judicially sanctioned." See Buckhannon Bd. & Care Home, Inc. v. W.Va. Dep't of Health & Human Res., 532 U.S. 598, 604-05, 121 S.Ct. 1835, 149 L.Ed.2d 855 (2001); Perez-Arellano v. Smith, 279 F.3d 791, 794 (9th Cir.2002) (<HOLDING>). We determined that the Court's actions
Holding statements: (A) holding that the buckhannon rule governs an application for fees under the eaja (B) holding that buckhannon applies to the attorneys fees provision of the idea (C) holding that under the eaja a litigant did not incur fees when his former employer agreed to pay his legal fees and expenses (D) holding that payment of eaja fees directly to the attorney also is consistent with the broad purpose for enacting the eaja if the commissioners narrow position was adopted there would be a substantial risk that counsel for a successful plaintiff might not be paid which would have a chilling effect on the willingness of attorneys to represent indigent claimants in social security cases thus thwarting the primary purpose the eaja was enacted (E) holding that the eaja application satisfied the eaja content requirements because it contained among other things an itemized statement of the fees sought supported by an affidavit from the appellants counsel
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holding that buckhannon applies to the attorneys fees provision of the idea