Q: 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.
is frivolous because the Court has yet to resolve the question of immunity in the first instance. See, e.g., Apostol, 870 F.2d at 1339 ("a notice of appeal may be so baseless that it does not invoke appellate jurisdiction ... [where] the district judge has not finally resolved the question of immunity"). B. Limited Jurisdictional Discovery Does Not Infringe on Sovereign Immunity The Country of Curacao and the Kingdom of the Netherlands contend that any discovery, including limited jurisdictional discovery, infringes on their presumptive sovereign immunity. (DE # 216, at 3). Generally, sovereign immunity shields defendants not only from judgment, but from the litigation process, including discovery. See, e.g., Rubin v. The Islamic Republic of Iran, 637 F.3d 783, 785 (7th Cir.2011) (<HOLDING>). The instant situation, however, is an
Holding statements: (A) holding district courts order permitting general asset discovery prior to ruling on alleged exception to the fsia infringed on sovereign immunity (B) holding that licensing the exploitation of natural resources is a sovereign activity under the fsia (C) recognizing the need for limited jurisdictional discovery to establish exception to the fsia (D) holding that a discovery exception to a statute of limitation applies only to the discovery of facts not discovery of the law (E) holding district courts order postponing ruling on defendants qualified immunity defense was immediately appealable
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(A)