Task: songer_applfrom

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to identify the type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court).

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 type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court)?
A. Trial (either jury or bench trial)
B. Injunction or denial of injunction or stay of injunction
C. Summary judgment or denial of summary judgment
D. Guilty plea or denial of motion to withdraw plea
E. Dismissal (include dismissal of petition for habeas corpus)
F. Appeals of post judgment orders (e.g., attorneys' fees, costs, damages, JNOV - judgment nothwithstanding the verdict)
G. Appeal of post settlement orders
H. Not a final judgment: interlocutory appeal
I. Not a final judgment: mandamus
J. Other (e.g., pre-trial orders, rulings on motions, directed verdicts) or could not determine nature of final judgment
K. Does not fit any of the above categories, but opinion mentions a "trial judge"
L. Not applicable (e.g., decision below was by a federal administrative agency, tax court)
Answer:

Answer: J