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 cause having been considered by the Court upon the petition for a Writ of Mandamus, the respondent’s response to the order to show cause why the writ should not issue, and the oral arguments and briefs of counsel for the respective parties;
And the Court being of the opinion that a part of the relief prayed for by the petitioner should be granted and a part denied and that the Writ should issue for the purpose of putting such ruling into effect, as set out in the opinion of the Court, 248 F.2d 156, filed this day,
It Is Ordered that this Writ of Mandamus issue out of this Court and that the Honorable Marion S. Boyd, United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, take the necessary action in his official capacity to vacate and set aside so much of an order entered by him on October 22, 1956, in the case of Continental Grain Company, a corporation, v. The First National Bank of Memphis, Tennessee, a national banking corporation, and Charles G. Black, Trustee in Bankruptcy for the Butler-Foster Milling Company, a Missouri corporation, being Civil Action No. 2860 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, as strikes from the record or denies the demand of said Trustee for a trial by jury of his cross-claim against the First National Bank of Memphis, Tennessee, and orders that the trial of the issues raised by said cross-claim and the answer of the Bank thereto be before the Court without a jury;
And It Is Further Ordered that other relief prayed for by the petition for Writ of Mandamus be denied and that the remainder of said order of October 22, 1956, be unaffected by the action taken by the respondent in compliance with this Writ.
It Is Further Ordered that no costs be allowed to the petitioner. Ewing v. Gardner, 341 U.S. 321, 71 S.Ct. 684, 95 L.Ed. 968.

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: B