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 the defendant. 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.

ORDER
Before CHAMBERS and ELY, Circuit Judges, and CURTIS, District Judge.
The district court dismissed the petition of removal in this murder case from the new territorial superior court in Guam. The petition of removal was based on defendant’s claim that as the Guam territorial judge’s son had been recently murdered, the judge should not hear this case. We affirm the order dismissing the petition of removal.
We simply do not reach the question of whether any removals to the District Court of Guam are permissible. This criminal case could not have been removed to a federal district court in any of the fifty states. There is no civil rights aspect to the case that would bring 28 U.S.C. § 1443 into play. See Georgia v. Rachel, 384 U.S. 780, 86 S.Ct. 1783, 16 L.Ed.2d 925 (1965).
The removal case issue should be settled. We find that Jones & Guerrero Co., Inc. v. Sealift Pacific, No. 75-3121, in our backlog, a diversity case, is likely to permit resolution of the question. We are proceeding to expedite.

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

Answer: A