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.
This action was commenced more than one year after the death of the plaintiff’s intestate.. The one year limitation in the North Carolina statute, G.S. § 28-173, has been consistently construed as a condition precedent to maintenance of the right of action. Gulledge v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co., 147 N.C. 234, 60 S.E. 1134, 125 Am.St.Rep. 544, rehearing 148 N.C. 567, 62 S.E. 732; Neely v. Minus, 196 N.C. 345, 145 S.E. 771; Mathis v. Camp Mfg. Co., 204 N.C. 434, 168 S.E. 515. The case of Tieffenbrun v. Flannery, 198 N.C. 397, 151 S.E. 857, 860, 68 A.L.R. 210, upon which the appellant strongly relies, contains nothing to the contrary. It holds merely that the one year time limit of the North Carolina statute “constitutes a statute of limitation” in respect to the right of action under the Florida wrongful death act, F.S.A. § 768.01 et seq., which annexed no time limit as a condition of the right, “as well as a condition annexed to liability” under the North Carolina statute. The New York courts and this court are bound by the interpretation put upon a foreign statute by the court of last resort of the foreign state; hence we must apply the North Carolina rule. Schwertfeger v. Scandinavian American Line, 186 App.Div. 89, 174 N.Y.S. 147, affirmed 226 N.Y. 696, 123 N.E. 888; Gatti Paper Stock Corp. v. Erie Railroad Co., 272 N.Y. 535, 4 N.E.2d 724; A. L. I. Restatement, Conflict of Laws § 605. That sections 13 and 55 of the New York Civil Practice Act have no application to the right of action created by a statute like that of North Carolina is made clear by the report of the Law Revision Commission, Legislative Document (1943) No. 65F.
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