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 government tax claim; for person claiming patent or copyright infringement; for the plaintiff alleging the injury; for economic underdog if one party is clearly an underdog in comparison to the other, neither party is clearly an economic underdog; in cases pitting an individual against a business, the individual is presumed to be the economic underdog unless there is a clear indication in the opinion to the contrary; for debtor or bankrupt; for government or private party raising claim of violation of antitrust laws, or party opposing merger; for the economic underdog in private conflict over securities; for individual claiming a benefit from government; for government in disputes over government contracts and government seizure of property; for government regulation in government regulation of business; for greater protection of the environment or greater consumer protection (even if anti-government); for the injured party in admiralty - personal injury; for economic underdog in admiralty and miscellaneous economic cases. 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.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
Prior to the bankruptcy of Albright, he wished to sell some real estate. It was subject to the lien of judgments owned by Shiek, the validity of which were contested by Albright. Accordingly they agreed that the land be sold by Al-bright, that Shiek release the lien of his judgments, sufficient of the purchase money, placed in escrow in the Norristown Trust Company, and substituted for the land. That fund is the subject-matter in dispute in the present case. Within four months thereafter Albright was adjudged a bankrupt, and the rights and status of all parties were thereby fixed, as follows: First, the bankrupt estate had a vested but contingent interest in the fund in the trust company, for if Shiek’s judgments were not valid it would go to Al-bright’s trustee; second, Shiek had an interest in the fund, adverse to the bankrupt and his estate, contingent upon the validity of his judgments. Now whatever rights Shiek might have asserted to have his adverse claim decided elsewhere, he chose to submit them to the bankruptcy court by filing claims of his judgments and taking part in the consideration of their validity by that court. He asserted or invoked no right as an adverse claimant to have such validity decided elsewhere, and while he made objections from time to time to the course of procedure, he did not challenge the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court as such. Accordingly, that court proceeded and held his judgments invalid. Shiek’s attempt, pending such adjudication, to go into the state'court, where his judgments were entered, and have that court determine their validity, and as a result the validity of the claims he had filed and litigated in the bankruptcy court, was unwarranted.
We find no error in the court below enjoining him from so doing. Its decree is therefore affirmed.

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

Answer: B