Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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1731; Allen v. Scribner, 812 F.2d 426 (9th Cir.1987); Anderson v. Central Point Sch. Dist., 746 F.2d 505 (9th Cir.1984); and Thomas v. Carpenter, 881 F.2d 828 (9th Cir.1989) for the proposition that the law was clearly established). When Diaz acted in 2009, it was also clearly established under both Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent that “the type of sanction ... ‘need not be particularly great in order to find that rights have been violated.’” Hyland v. Wonder, 972 F.2d 1129, 1135 (9th Cir.1992) (quoting Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 359 n. 13, 96 S.Ct. 2673, 49 L.Ed.2d 547 (1976)). It was also clearly established that deprivation of an employee’s salary is unconstitutional if levied in retaliation for protected speech. See Manhattan Beach, 881 F.2d at 818-19 (9th Cir.1989) . That we have not decided a case in which the
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that if a fireman contributed to a pension fund on the basis of his salary plus longevity payments he would be entitled to pension payments computed on the same basis
B. holding that salary is unconstitutionally withheld if on the basis of protected activities
C. holding that allegations of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation necessarily state a claim of discrimination on the basis of sex
D. holding the freedom of speech assembly and petition guaranteed by the first and fourteenth amendments gives petitioner the right to hire attorneys on a salary basis to assist its members in the assertion of their legal rights
E. holding that peaceful picketing is protected through the first and fourteenth amendments on the basis of five supreme court decisions examining the question
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.