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.
Four patent suits between certain parties are pending in the Court of Exchequer for the Dominion of Canada. It was alleged that certain of the material witnesses in those cases are residents of the United States. Among those are the petitioners-appellants, Krenkel, Eberly, Meinig, and Janssen.
The plaintiffs in the Canadian suits who are the respondents-appellees here Obtained a commission from the Court of Exchequer directed to Everett G. Rode-bough, Esq., of Philadelphia. The commission gave him power to examine the petitioners herein and other witnesses in matters pertaining to the suits pending in the Court of Exchequer. The commission was nQt directed tQ the United s District Court and its aid was not asked in enforcing it.
To enforce the commission, the respondents filed an ex parte petition in the District Court for an order directing the issuance of subpoenas duces tecum cornpelling the witnesses, who were desired, to appear before the commissioner appointed by the Court of Exchequer and to submit to an examination in the matters touching the Canadian suits.
The District Court granted the order requested without notice to any of the persons who were sought as witnesses. Subpoenas were issued and served upon the. witnesses.-
The petitioners thereupon filed petitions to quash the subpoenas. The District Court denied their prayers to quash and entered an order requiring them to comply with the direction of the subpoenas upon three days’ notice. The petitioners appealed, but were denied supersedeas.
The matters are here on petitions for writs of supersedeas and on motions by the respondents to dismiss the appeals.
The respondents contend that the appeals should be dismissed for the reason that the order* of the District Court was not final, but we cannot dispose of this question until we hear argument on the merits.
At this time, we have only to decide whether or not we should grant the applications for supersedeas. If we do not allow a supersedeas and the witnesses are required to testify, the questions raised by the appeals which we cannot decide until the argument on the merits will become purely academic.
Consequently writs of supersedeas are granted pending argument on the appeals.

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

Answer: A