Task: songer_typeiss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court. Choose among the following categories. Criminal and prisioner petitions- includes appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence or the validity of continued confinement. Civil - Government - these will include appeals from administrative agencies (e.g., OSHA,FDA), the decisions of administrative law judges, or the decisions of independent regulatory agencies (e.g., NLRB, FCC,SEC). The focus in administrative law is usually on procedural principles that apply to administrative agencies as they affect private interests, primarily through rulemaking and adjudication. Tort actions against the government, including petitions by prisoners which challenge the conditions of their confinement or which seek damages for torts committed by prion officials or by police fit in this category. In addition, this category will include suits over taxes and claims for benefits from government. Diversity of Citizenship - civil cases involving disputes between citizens of different states (remember that businesses have state citizenship). These cases will always involve the application of state or local law. If the case is centrally concerned with the application or interpretation of federal law then it is not a diversity case. Civil Disputes - Private - includes all civil cases that do not fit in any of the above categories. The opposing litigants will be individuals, businesses or groups.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns burial hearses having a movable casket table adapted to being projected laterally outside a side door of a hearse so as to receive a coffin and thereafter to be turned back into a longitudinal position in the hearse. It will be seen that the hearse could in this way stand sideways along a curb and not at right angles and stop traffic. This structure was embodied in patent No. 1,721,391, granted July 16, 1929, to Heise. Subsequently one Henney acquired an exclusive license of the patent to make, use, and sell the patented hearse. Thereafter he granted a sublicense to the Eureka Company, the plaintiff. It brought the present suit against the Henney Motor Company, which had acquired Henney’s right to the patent, charging unfair competition and praying an injunction restraining defendants from making alleged misstatements as to plaintiff’s interest in the patent. On final hearing, the court below, in an opinion reported in (D.C.) 14 F.Supp. 764, 766, dismissed the bill. Thereafter Eureka took this appeal. Reference to such opinion obviates restatement of the voluminous proofs and contentions of the parties.
In the final analysis the case narrows to the issue stated by the lower court in its opinion as follows: “Can Eureka sell Heise parts or tables to hearse manufacturers separate and apart from finished hearses ? The real controversy between the parties hinges upon the answer to that-question. If Eureka can sell such separate parts, then its nonexclusive license was not forfeited and the alleged acts of unfair competition on the part of defendant are not justified. On the other hand, if Eureka cannot sell such separate parts its non-exclusive license was forfeited and the advertisements and statements of defendant may be justified.”
On the hearing before us both parties ask us to determine this question and end the controversy. The pertinent provisions of the sublicense to Eureka are as follows: “The Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee a nonexclusive license to make in its principal place of business wherever situated, and at no other place or places and to use and sell in the United States and throughout the world hearses and other vehicles embodying the inventions disclosed or claimed in said above identified applications for letters patent. * * * said grant to be subject to the following terms and conditions. * * * The Licensee agrees to keep accurate books of account showing dates of shipment or delivery of each and every side loading hearse (or assembly of principal parts used in making hearses) shipped or delivered by Licensee during the term of this agreement, said books to clearly show the name and address of each customer and the serial number of each hearse shipped to each customer. * * * Licensee agrees to use its best efforts to promote the sale of side loading hearses. Should Licensee during any calendar year during the term of this agreement fail to manufacture and sell a minimum of Twenty hearses embodying side loading features, it is agreed that said failure of Licensee to so manufacture and sell shall automatically terminate this agreement.”
After argument and full consideration of the terms of the sublicense, we are of opinion Eureka had no right to sell Heise parts or tables to hearse manufacturers separate and apart from finished hearses and, so holding, the decree of the court dismissing the bill, on account of our so construing the sublicense, is affirmed.

Question: What is the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court?
A. criminal and prisoner petitions
B. civil - government
C. diversity of citizenship
D. civil - private
E. other, not applicable
F. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: D