Task: songer_treat

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the disposition by the court of appeals of the decision of the court or agency below; i.e., how the decision below is "treated" by the appeals court. That is, the basic outcome of the case for the litigants, indicating whether the appellant or respondent "won" in the court of appeals.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In this patent ease the final decree, the entry of which the petitioner says was error, was entered on March 27, 1931. From the entry thereof he took no appeal within the time provided by statute. On July 21, 1931, he presented this petition for a writ of certiorari and therein seeks to review the same alleged error that could have been reviewed on a timely appeal. In other words, he seeks, in effect, to use a writ of certiorari as an appeal.
In the ease of Turner v. United States (C. C. A.) 14 F.(2d) 360, 361, the court makes it plain this cannot be done, holding: “But it may not be used under this provision as a substitute for an appeal or writ of error to correct mere errors committed in the exercise of a lawful jurisdiction. * * * In Greyerbiehl v. Hughes Elec. Co. (C. C. A.) 294 F. 802, we made use of the writ to restrain and correct a plain excess of jurisdiction.”
The petition for certiorari is denied and dismissed.

Question: What is the disposition by the court of appeals of the decision of the court or agency below?
A. stay, petition, or motion granted
B. affirmed; or affirmed and petition denied
C. reversed (include reversed & vacated)
D. reversed and remanded (or just remanded)
E. vacated and remanded (also set aside & remanded; modified and remanded)
F. affirmed in part and reversed in part (or modified or affirmed and modified)
G. affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded; affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded
H. vacated
I. petition denied or appeal dismissed
J. certification to another court
K. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: I