Task: songer_applfrom

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to identify the type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court).

PER CURIAM:
Benjamin R. Lawson, appellant herein, is confined in the California State Prison as a result of his conviction in a California court of the crime of first degree robbery. He filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Califonia a document entitled “Petition for a Writ of Quo Warranto.” He named as defendants “California Adult Authority Agents and all Members Herein; Walter Dunbar, Director to the Deportment of Corrections; et al.” The sole prayer of the complaint for relief prayed “that warrants may be issued for the arrest of said defendants and that they be dealt with according to law.”
On motion by defendants that, inter alia, the complaint failed to state a cause of action on which relief may be granted, the district court dismissed the action with prejudice. This appeal followed.
There being no basis on which the relief demanded by appellant can be granted, the judgment is affirmed.

Question: What is the type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court)?
A. Trial (either jury or bench trial)
B. Injunction or denial of injunction or stay of injunction
C. Summary judgment or denial of summary judgment
D. Guilty plea or denial of motion to withdraw plea
E. Dismissal (include dismissal of petition for habeas corpus)
F. Appeals of post judgment orders (e.g., attorneys' fees, costs, damages, JNOV - judgment nothwithstanding the verdict)
G. Appeal of post settlement orders
H. Not a final judgment: interlocutory appeal
I. Not a final judgment: mandamus
J. Other (e.g., pre-trial orders, rulings on motions, directed verdicts) or could not determine nature of final judgment
K. Does not fit any of the above categories, but opinion mentions a "trial judge"
L. Not applicable (e.g., decision below was by a federal administrative agency, tax court)
Answer:

Answer: E