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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.

Carolina address and received notification that the petition was "not deliverable as addressed, unable to forward." As to the second method, service through CT Corporation, the Thompsons received notice from CT that it was not Deutsche's agent. Finally, the district court also rejected the Thompsons' third argument, that service on ASC was service on Deutsche. A citation must be "directed to the defendant." Tex.R. Civ. P. 99(b)(8). The citation to ASC was directed only to it with no mention of Deutsche. Thus, we agree with the district court that Deutsche was never properly served. 6 . The Court need not consider ACS's citizenship, which is unclear from the record, because ACS was not a party at the time of removal. See Badon v. RJR Nabisco, Inc., 224 F.3d 382, 390-91 (5th Cir.2000) (<HOLDING>). 7 . The United States apparently argued in
Holding statements: (A) holding that a colorable claim was asserted against the nondiverse agent of the insurer blocking removal of the suit to federal court (B) holding that the limitation of 1367b applies only to plaintiffs efforts to join nondiverse parties (C) holding that were the court to find fraudulent joinder as to a nondiverse defendant on the basis of evidence equally dispositive of the liability of that defendant and a nondiverse defendant a refusal later in the proceedings to give judgment for the diverse defendant on the same grounds in turn would require the court to revisit a ruling that the nondiverse defendant was fraudulently joined (D) holding that district court appropriately dismissed suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when the case was moot (E) recognizing that a case becomes removable when nondiverse parties are dismissed subject to the oneyear limitation on removal
Output:
(E)