With no explanation, chose the best option from "A", "B", "C" or "D". other enumerated instances of bad faith are sufficient to support the fee award. We begin by emphasizing that the district court assessed the fees pursuant to the court’s “inherent power” to “manage [its] own affairs.” Link v. Wabash R. Co., 370 U.S. 626, 630-31, 82 S.Ct. 1386, 1389, 8 L.Ed.2d 734 (1962). It is beyond serious dispute that a district court may use its inherent powers to assess attorneys’ fees against a party that has “ ‘acted in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, or for oppressive reasons,”’ Chambers, 501 U.S. at 45-46, 111 S.Ct. at 2133 (quoting Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society, 421 U.S. 240, 258-59, 95 S.Ct. 1612, 1622, 44 L.Ed.2d 141 (1975)); see also Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper, 447 U.S. 752, 765-66, 100 S.Ct. 2455, 2463-64, 65 L.Ed.2d 488 (1980) (<HOLDING>); Jones v. Winnepesaukee Realty, et al, 990

A: recognizing exception
B: recognizing bad faith exception to general rule that federal courts cannot ordinarily make feeshifting awards
C: holding that a bad faith claim is a tort
D: recognizing general rule
B.