Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Dec.12, 1997) (reviewing arbitration panel’s “interim order” requiring defendant to post security pending a final award); Atlas Assurance Co. of Am. v. American Centennial Ins. Co., No. 90 Civ. 5474, 1991 WL 4741, at *2-*3 (S.D.N.Y. Jan.16, 1991) (confirming interim award directing defendant to fund an escrow account for the benefit of the successful party as determined in the final award); Konkar Maritime Enterprises v. Compagnie Belge D’Affretement, 668 F.Supp. 267, 272 (S.D.N.Y.1987) (confirming arbitrators’ interim order to establish jointly-held escrow account that was intended to establish “security for enforcement of an award in the event that respondent was found liable”); Southern Seas Navigation Ltd. v. Petroleos Mexicanos, 606 F.Supp. 692, 694 (S.D.N.Y.1985) ; Sperry Int’l Trade v. Government of Israel,
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that the plaintiff must prove that the end users directly infringed its patent in order to succeed on its claim of contributory infringement
B. holding that absent a collective bargaining agreement which extends the employment period past the end of a particular voyage a seaman is entitled to unearned wages until the end of the voyage
C. holding that order reducing the notice of a claim of lien was not interim in the sense of being an intermediate step toward a further end rather it is an end in itself for its very purpose is to clarify the parties rights in the interim period pending a final decision on the merits
D. holding that interim awards of attorneys fees are inappropriate where the only relief obtained is a preliminary injunction which may be subsequently overturned on the merits
E. holding that where the statutory scheme is clear the inquiry should end
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.