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.
Input: Standish, 2008 ME 23, 7, 940 A.2d 1097. Under its umbrella are two applications: issue preclusion, or collateral estoppel, and claim preclusion. Guardianship of Jewel M., 2010 ME 80, 39, 2 A.3d 301. Here, Pearson contends that Wendell should have been collaterally estopped from presenting evidence about fac December 2014, none of the prior orders constituted a final judgment. Although the March 2013 order was originally issued as a final judgment on the grant of the divorce itself , and on parental rights and responsibilities, the nature and effect of that order changed in March 2014 when, with the parties'agreement, the court vacated the judgment and correctly recharacterized it, and all subsequent orders, as interim orders. See Gulesian v. Gulesian, 377 A.2d 119, 120 (Me.1977) (<HOLDING>). Accordingly, the doctrine of collateral
Holding statements: (A) holding that because trial courts order did not dispose of the defendants counterclaim that order was not a final judgment that would support an appeal (B) holding property settlement to be contractual obligation from date of final judgment of divorce (C) holding that an order not denominated a judgment is not final for purposes of appeal (D) holding that an order authorizing a sale is a final judgment (E) holding that an order pending divorce is not a final judgment that creates a right of appeal
Output:
holding that because trial courts order did not dispose of the defendants counterclaim that order was not a final judgment that would support an appeal