Detailed 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.
Q: not actually moot because the alleged harm was "capable of repetition but evading review," id. at 800-01, but the general rule of law holds true: where a representative plaintiffs claim has been rendered moot before certification is granted, dismissal of the entire action is warranted unless the claims fall into either of the enunciated exceptions. See also Tucker v. Phyfer, 819 F.2d 1030, 1033 (11th Cir.1987) ("In a class action, the claim of the named plaintiff, who seeks to represent the class, must be live both at the time he brings suit and when the district court determines whether to certify the putative class. If the claim is not live, the Court lacks a justiciable controversy and must dismiss the claim as moot."); Sannon v. United States, 631 F.2d 1247, 1252 (5th Cir.1980) (<HOLDING>). In the present case, no class had been
Holding statements: (A) holding that because no class was certified at the time the individual claims were dismissed the class action was properly dismissed (B) holding that the claims of the class representative and class members must be based on the same legal or remedial theory (C) holding that the dismissal of a class action suit after the representative plaintiffs claims became moot was proper noting that because the class action was never properly certified nor the class properly identified by the district court the decision that the claims of the purported representative were moot dictated the dismissal of the uncertified class action as well quoting bd of school commrs v jacobs 420 us 128 130 95 sct 848 850 43 led2d 74 78 1975 per curiam (D) recognizing a narrow class of cases in which the termination of the class representatives claim for relief does not moot the claims of the class members (E) holding that the filing of a class action by a class representative without standing tolls the period of limitations with regard to all asserted members of the class and that the amendment of the complaint by the addition of a class member with standing relates back to the original complaint
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holding that because no class was certified at the time the individual claims were dismissed the class action was properly dismissed