Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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EAJA application as premature, the court granted the Government’s December 26, 2006 Motion for an Enlargement of Time to respond thirty days after the earhest date on which the application properly could have been filed. Accordingly, on January 29, 2007, the Government filed a Response (“Gov’t Resp.”), together with three exhibits. On February 15, 2007, Plaintiff filed a Reply (“Pl.Reply”). II. DISCUSSION. A. The Relevant Statute. The Equal Access to Justice Act authorizes: a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses ... incurred by bstantially justified,” to mean: “justified in substance or in the main-—that is, justified to a degree that could satisfy a reasonable person.” Pierce v. Underwood, 487 U.S. 552, 565, 108 S.Ct. 2541, 101 L.Ed.2d 490 (1988) ; see also Smith v. Principi, 343 F.3d 1358,
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that for the administrative position of the government to be substantially justified it must have a reasonable basis both in law and fact
B. holding that the board cannot be liable for punitive damages citations omitted
C. recognizing special trust and confidence that must exist between attorney and client citations omitted
D. holding governments position unreasonable where government advanced no legal authority for its position and applicable principle of law was long settled
E. holding that the governments position must have a reasonable basis in both law and fact citations omitted
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.