Definition: 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: of Tucson, Inc. v. Marks, 17 Adz.App. 308, 310, 497 P.2d 534, 536 (1972). 38 We agree with the trial court that the Richardsons' claim for declaratory relief regarding future liability to third parties for any failure to maintain the easement is non-justiciable. " 'A declaratory relief statute only justifies a declaration of rights upon an existing state of facts, not one upon a state of facts which may or may not arise in the future. Nor will future rights be determined in anticipation of an event that may never happen.'" Moore v. Bolin, 70 Ariz. 354, 357, 220 P.2d 850, 852 (1950) (quoting Annotation, Declaration of Rights or Declaratory Judgments, 87 A.L.R. 1205 (1933)); U.S. West Communications, Inc. v. Ariz. Corp. Comm'n, 198 Ariz. 208, 214-15, 15, 8 P.3d 396, 402-03 (App.2000) (<HOLDING>), vacated on other grounds, 201 Ariz. 242, 247,
Holding statements: (A) holding court will not render judgment on situation that may never occur (B) holding that the court will not interpret the law in such a way as to render a jurisdictional statute a nullity (C) holding that because a claim was never raised in the district court this court would not consider it for the first time on appeal (D) holding that a statute must not be given the one of two reasonable interpretations which will render it unconstitutional (E) holding that district court had subjectmatter jurisdiction and yet that judgment void for lack of jurisdiction to render the particular judgment
Output:
(A)