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.

PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Massachusetts. The defendant at the close of the evidence moved for a directed verdict in its favor, which was refused. This is the only assignment of error. The jury found for the plaintiff.
If the jury believed the plaintiff’s testimony and that of her sister, the plaintiff entered the defendant’s store in Boston for the purpose of making purchases. While walking along one of the aisles of the store between two counters where she could properly travel in making her purchases, a salesgirl, ■ after ringing up a sale on a cash register, walked backward from behind the counter into the aisle and stepped on the plaintiff’s foot, evidently breaking the skin, from which blood poisoning developed.
The plaintiff and her sister positively identified the salesgirl who they claimed caused the injury. There was much conflict of testimony as to the identity of the salesgirl, and whether at the time she was in the act of performing any duties her employment required. We think there was evidence warranting the submission of the case to the jury.
While an alternative -verdict, so called, was taken, if the jury believed the plaintiff’s evidence, we see no question of law involvecb on which the judgment can be reversed. The salesgirl, from the plaintiff’s evidence, was evidently employed at the time at the counter in question. There is nothing in the record to indicate as a matter of law that the plaintiff was not in the exercise of due care, or had any warning that the salesgirl was about to step back into the aisle without stopping or looking.' The charge of the presiding judge was not printed, and we must assume that he gave full and correct instructions as to what constitutes negligence and contributory negligence, and what injuries can be said as a matter of law to be the result, of pure accident.
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed, with costs.

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: C