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:Inc., No. 02-0260 at 6-7 (BRB Dec. 17, 2002). We agree with the Board that we need not read the phrase "customarily used" as modifying "pier" in order to arrive at the conclusion that the term "pier" in 903(a) does not include every conceivable structure built on pilings over land and water, but rather only those serving some maritime purpose. The maritime nature of the LHWCA imparts a meaning to 903(a)'s enumerat ed terms that goes beyond their use in ordinary language. Congress enacted the LHWCA pursuant to its maritime jurisdiction, having been twice rebuffed by the Supreme Court in its initial attempts to use state workers' compensation laws to cover injuries occurring in navigable waters. Calbeck v. Travelers Ins. Co., 370 U.S. 114, 117, 82 S.Ct. 1196, 8 L.Ed.2d 368 (1962) (<HOLDING>); Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart, 253 U.S.
Holding statements: (A) holding that in enacting title vii congress abrogated eleventh amendment immunity (B) holding that congress acted within constitutionally conferred authority in enacting mdlea (C) holding congress did not exceed its authority in enacting the mdlea (D) holding that congress invoked its constitutional maritime power in enacting the lhwca in 1927 (E) holding generally that congress validly abrogated state immunity in enacting title vii
Solution:
(D)