Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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injunctive relief against the individual Defendants in their official capacities, and against Defendant OASAS, the Court finds that they are immune from suit pursuant to the Eleventh Amendment; and, therefore, grants this portion of Defendants’ motion to dismiss. See Walker v. Connecticut, 106 F.Supp.2d ed immunity] is whether the state of the law ... gave [the defendants] fair warning that their alleged treatment of [the plaintiff] was unconstitutional.” Hope v. Pelzer, 536 U.S. 730, 741, 122 S.Ct. 2508, 153 L.Ed.2d 666 (2002). As qualified immunity is an affirmative defense, the burden of pleading it falls on the defendants. See Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 640, 100 S.Ct. 1920, 64 L.Ed.2d 572 (1980) (citations omitted); see also Varrone v. Bilotti, 123 F.3d 75, 78 (2d Cir.1997) . The qualified immunity determination consists
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that plaintiffs bear the burden of showing by a preponderance of the evidence that defendants have failed to adhere to the requirements of nepa
B. holding that defendants bear the burden of proving contributory negligence by a preponderance of the evidence
C. holding that the party seeking a new trial must make an affirmative showing that some extraneous influence came to bear on the jurys deliberations internal quotation marks and citation omitted
D. holding that defendants bear the burden of showing that the challenged act was objectively reasonable citation omitted
E. holding that the burden is on the defendant when the validity of the warrant is challenged
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.