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.

Input: Consider Input: the district court would have been de facto granting a continuance by declaring a mistrial and summoning new jurors. We decline here to find that the district court abused its discretion in denying a mistrial when the defendant's own misconduct caused the alleged impartiality of the jurors and the court took reasonable steps to ensure the jurors could serve impartially. Williams v. Woodford, 306 F.3d 665, 723-24 (9th Cir.2002) ("The Sixth Amendment affords no relief when the defendant's own misconduct caused the alleged juror partiality and the trial judge employed reasonable means under the circumstances to preserve the trial's fairness") (citing United States v. Hernandez, 952 F.2d 1110, 1116-18 (9th Cir.1991)). See also United States v. Harris, 2 F.3d 1452, 1456 (7th Cir.1993) (<HOLDING>). Because the district court afforded the
Holding statements: (A) holding that law will not permit insured to profit from his own breach of contract when insured disregarded his contractual obligation to cooperate with insurer (B) holding that a bank officer who obtained for his own benefit a profit participation in a real estate venture in exchange for loaning bank money misappropriated a corporate asset (C) holding that a defendant should not profit from his own outburst (D) recognizing in context of fraudulent nondisclosure cases that a defendant may reasonably expect the plaintiff to make his own investigation draw his own conclusions and protect himself (E) holding that outofstate plaintiff had procured his own absence at trial of his case where record contained no intimation that his absence resulted from any reason other than his own volition

Output: (C)

Input: Consider Input: were driven by '[p]rice in an all-inclusive sense, which starts with the freight rate.' " (Doc. S-l at 56). No effort was made to differentiate or promote any aspect of Trailer Bridge's products or services. Instead, the statement provided a brief explanation of the factors affecting price in the entire Puerto Rican cabotage market. Cf American Simmental Ass'n v. Coregis Ins. Co., 282 F.3d 582, 587 (8th Cir.2002) ("The plain and ordinary meaning of 'advertising idea' generally encompasses an idea for calling public attention to a product or business, especially by proclaiming desirable qualities so as to increase sales or patronage." (internal quotation marks omitted)); Proxima Corp. v. Federal Ins. Co., 26 F.3d 132, 1994 WL 245671 at *1 (9th Cir.1994) (unpublished table decision) (<HOLDING>). Regardless of whether the statement lulled
Holding statements: (A) holding statements of product superiority and that product was industry approved were puffery (B) holding that a contract for an exclusive agency to market a product contains an implied promise to use all reasonable efforts to market the product (C) holding that the essential wrong of trademark infringement the appropriation of the good will of anothers established mark may be effectively accomplished by advertising matter associating that others distinguishing mark with the product of defendant (D) holding that the shape of a product was not an advertising idea because there was no allegation in the complaint that the design itself was a trademark or was intended to distinguish the product from others that might enter the market citation omitted (E) holding that a cause of action on the theory of strict liability may be properly pled by alleging 1 the manufacturers relationship to the product in question 2 the unreasonably dangerous condition of the product and 3 the existence of a proximate causal connection between the condition of the product and the plaintiffs injury

Output: (D)

Input: Consider Input: express an intention different from its clear meaning."). No Exclusion from SPMS in Business Regulation 11-207 The administrative law judge based his opposite conclusion on several factors. First, he compared BR 11-206 and 11-207. He concluded that the "staff' authorized by 11-206, who were expressly included in the SPMS, were to be contrasted with the "additional employees," who were not so included. We must reject this reasoning. SPP 6-302 does not require that executive branch state employees be specifically included in the SPMS. The presumption is that they are so included. Rather, it requires that employees not to be included in the SPMS be explicitly excluded from the system. Cf. State Admin. Bd. of Election Laws v. Billhimer, 72 Md.App. 578, 586-87, 531 A.2d 1298 (1987) (<HOLDING>), rev'd, on other grounds, 314 Md. 46, 548 A.2d
Holding statements: (A) recognizing that state agencies which are independent of the state are citizens of the state (B) holding that the federal due process clause protects a state employee who under state law has a legitimate claim of entitlement to state employment (C) holding that under the old state employment merit system all employees of the state are deemed classified unless they have been specifically exempted form that category (D) holding that the statute plainly exempted all employees who were covered by the flsa before january 1 2007 (E) holding that antecedent debts will not be deemed within a dragnet clause unless they are specifically identified in the instrument
Output: (C)