Task: songer_method

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to determine the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for the case, that is, the legal history of the case, indicating whether there had been prior appellate court proceeding on the same case prior to the decision currently coded. Assume that the case had been decided by the panel for the first time if there was no indication to the contrary in the opinion. The opinion usually, but not always, explicitly indicates when a decision was made "en banc" (though the spelling of "en banc" varies). However, if more than 3 judges were listed as participating in the decision, code the decision as enbanc even if there was no explicit description of the proceeding as en banc.

PER CURIAM:
On February 22, 1961 Mrs. Dorothy Blanco suffered certain injuries in a fall in one of appellee’s theaters due to appel-lee’s alleged negligence. She commenced an action for damages in New York State Supreme Court, and there moved for a general trial preference, apparently on the ground that the seriousness of her injuries warranted such a disposition of her case. The motion was denied and the case remained in its assigned position on the jury calendar. Mrs. Blanco appealed the denial of the motion, and the order was affirmed by the Appellate Division. On motion for reconsideration in the Supreme Court, the motion was again denied. Mrs. Blanco then petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that the denial of a general trial preference deprived Mrs. Blanco of the right to a jury trial, thus violating her right to due process of law under the fourteenth amendment. Basing jurisdiction on 28 U.S.C. § 1331(a) (1970), petitioner requested that the district court order the New York Supreme Court to grant Mrs. Blanco a general preference. The district court dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. We affirm. Mrs. Blanco was not deprived of a jury trial. The constitutional claim is frivolous.

Question: What is the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for this case?
A. decided by panel for first time (no indication of re-hearing or remand)
B. decided by panel after re-hearing (second time this case has been heard by this same panel)
C. decided by panel after remand from Supreme Court
D. decided by court en banc, after single panel decision
E. decided by court en banc, after multiple panel decisions
F. decided by court en banc, no prior panel decisions
G. decided by panel after remand to lower court
H. other
I. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A