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.

PER CURIAM.
In the report of the special master filed in this case, exceptions were filed by both parties, and, on hearing before the court, all the exceptions were dismissed and the report confirmed. From the judgment and decree so entered, both parties appealed. After full consideration of the cases, we are of opinion that both appeals should be dismissed; the appellant in each case to pay the costs of such appeal. .
In the appeal of John Cumming, Jr., he is directed to pay the costs accruing before the master in his reclamation proceedings and counsel fees in the sum of $-. Subject to this modification, the judgment and decree of the court below is affirmed. In case the parties do not, before the mandate goes down, agree on the amount of such fee, then and in that event the fixation of the fee will be made by the court below.

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

Answer: D