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.
Q: reasoned explanation for its decision. Complaint at 14. The Mullinses allege that CSD's objection had nothing to do with their fitness as adoptive parents. They claim that CSD objected because it erroneously thought that it had to obtain the blessing of Washington authorities before it could send the chil dren to live with the Mullinses in Seattle. See Complaint at 16. Whatever the reason for the objection, once CSD withheld its consent to the adoption, that was the end of the road for the Mullinses. The juvenile court had no choice but to dismiss their adoption petition for want of jurisdiction. See Oreg.Rev.Stat. 109.316 (providing that CSD must consent to adoption of children in its custody); see also In re Adoption of Greybull, 29 Or.App. 889, 565 P.2d 773, 774-75 (1977) (<HOLDING>). The juvenile court dutifully dismissed the
Holding statements: (A) holding that csds consent is jurisdictional fact that must be pleaded in adoption petition (B) holding that a claim of exemption is an affirmative defense which must be specifically pleaded (C) holding that time limit for filing petition for review is mandatory and jurisdictional (D) holding that mitigation of damages is an affirmative defense that must be pleaded (E) holding that the time limit for filing a petition for review of a final order of deportation is jurisdictional
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(A)