Task: songer_exhaust

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. You will be asked a question pertaining to some threshold issue at the trial court level. These issues are only considered to be present if the court of appeals is reviewing whether or not the litigants should properly have been allowed to get a trial court decision on the merits. That is, the issue is whether or not the issue crossed properly the threshhold to get on the district court agenda. The issue is: "Did the court determine that it would not hear the appeal for one of the following reasons: a) administrative remedies had not been exhausted; or b) the issue was not ripe for judicial action?" Answer the question based on the directionality of the appeals court decision. If the court discussed the issue in its opinion and answered the related question in the affirmative, answer "Yes". If the issue was discussed and the opinion answered the question negatively, answer "No". If the opinion considered the question but gave a mixed answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part, answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion does not discuss the issue, or notes that a particular issue was raised by one of the litigants but the court dismissed the issue as frivolous or trivial or not worthy of discussion for some other reason, answer "Issue not discussed". If the opinion considered the question but gave a "mixed" answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part (or if two issues treated separately by the court both fell within the area covered by one question and the court answered one question affirmatively and one negatively), answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion either did not consider or discuss the issue at all or if the opinion indicates that this issue was not worthy of consideration by the court of appeals even though it was discussed by the lower court or was raised in one of the briefs, answer "Issue not discussed".

PER CURIAM.
This appeal questions whether a disappointed bidder for property sold by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation in its corporate capacity can challenge the sale. Diercks, the plaintiff below, entered a bid which would have required the FSLIC to pay a five percent broker’s commission. When the five percent commission was netted out from Diercks’ total bid, his bid was $3.00 lower than the winning bid which required no such commission. Diercks challenged the award of the bid on the grounds that he was denied due process because the FSLIC had never given notice that it would take the highest net bid rather than the highest gross bid.
The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation is an independent, federally-created corporation operating under a broad grant of power. The powers given it for management of its own affairs include the power to sue and be sued, the power to hire, fix compensation for, and define the duties of its employees, and the power “[t]o make contracts.” 12 U.S.C. § 1819. Nothing relevant to this suit hinders or in any way circumscribes the FSLIC’s power to make contracts as it sees fit. No bidding is required or mentioned; no procedures are set out to be followed by the FSLIC when acting in its corporate capacity. This should be compared to the relatively detailed requirements set out for the corporation when acting as a receiver. See e. g., 12 U.S.C. §§ 1821, 1822. Clearly, then, Congress intended that the internal affairs of the corporation (i. e., the making of contracts, hiring employees) be left to its unfettered discretion.
In the present case, Diercks sought review of a sale of property by the FSLIC in its corporate capacity. Yet, as we have noted, Congress left the decision of what to sell, how to sell and when to sell to the discretion of the corporation. Thus, the corporation could have sold the property without taking bids or by any other procedure it saw fit. That it chose the reasonable and commendable procedure of accepting bids and choosing the one that provided it with the greatest return is a decision which this court cannot question. Cf. § 10 of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 701(a)(2) (which prohibits judicial review of agency action “committed to agency discretion by law”) and Ferry v. Udall, 336 F.2d 706, 714 (9th Cir. 1964) (holding that due process does not require a hearing “where only a potential privilege to purchase United States land is involved”). The decision of the district court dismissing the complaint is affirmed.
Affirmed.

Question: Did the court determine that it would not hear the appeal for one of the following reasons: a) administrative remedies had not been exhausted; or b) the issue was not ripe for judicial action?
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: D