Task: songer_direct1

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision, coded as "liberal" or "conservative". Consider liberal to be for government tax claim; for person claiming patent or copyright infringement; for the plaintiff alleging the injury; for economic underdog if one party is clearly an underdog in comparison to the other, neither party is clearly an economic underdog; in cases pitting an individual against a business, the individual is presumed to be the economic underdog unless there is a clear indication in the opinion to the contrary; for debtor or bankrupt; for government or private party raising claim of violation of antitrust laws, or party opposing merger; for the economic underdog in private conflict over securities; for individual claiming a benefit from government; for government in disputes over government contracts and government seizure of property; for government regulation in government regulation of business; for greater protection of the environment or greater consumer protection (even if anti-government); for the injured party in admiralty - personal injury; for economic underdog in admiralty and miscellaneous economic cases. Consider the directionality to be "mixed" if the directionality of the decision was intermediate to the extremes defined above or if the decision was mixed (e.g., the conviction of defendant in a criminal trial was affirmed on one count but reversed on a second count or if the conviction was afirmed but the sentence was reduced). Consider "not ascertained" if the directionality could not be determined or if the outcome could not be classified according to any conventional outcome standards.

PAGE, Circuit Judge.
Excluding the averments in the declaration charging liability against the Wisconsin State Athletic Commission and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, former defendants .herein, dismissed out of the case by consent, the allegations against the remaining defendant, the Wisconsin Roxing Club, amount to no more than this: That by an entire agreement, made in writing, plaintiff was to box 10 rounds, in consideration of which defendant was to pay him $10,000; that defendant refused to pay; that plaintiff did not box the 10 rounds because he was wrongfully prevented from doing so by a member of the Wisconsin Athletic Commission and its refeee. It is not claimed that they were the agents for, or under the control of, the defendant, or that defendant profited thereby. No cause of action is stated against defendant.
The decision of Judge Geiger is right, find the judgment affirmed.

Question: What is the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision?
A. conservative
B. liberal
C. mixed
D. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A