Task: songer_applfrom

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to identify the type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court).

HICKS, Circuit Judge.
This cause was heard upon the transcript of the record, briefs, and arguments of counsel. On consideration whereof, the court is of the opinion that the filing in the Clerk’s office by appellant of the affidavits obtained under the circumstances set forth in the evidence was not upon the authority of Nye v. United States, 313 U.S. 33, 61 S.Ct. 810, 85 L.Ed. 1172, in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, since it does not appear that the court was in session at the time.
And it further appearing that to bring the acts of appellant as an attorney within the inhibition of “misbehavior of any of the officers of said courts in their official transactions” requires a construction of the statute providing for punishment by fine and imprisonment, which under well settled rules of construction of penal statutes we are not permitted to make, it is ordered and adjudged that the judgment appealed from be and is set aside, and that the rule to show cause why appellant Schmidt should not be held in contempt of court be and the same is hereby dismissed.

Question: What is the type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court)?
A. Trial (either jury or bench trial)
B. Injunction or denial of injunction or stay of injunction
C. Summary judgment or denial of summary judgment
D. Guilty plea or denial of motion to withdraw plea
E. Dismissal (include dismissal of petition for habeas corpus)
F. Appeals of post judgment orders (e.g., attorneys' fees, costs, damages, JNOV - judgment nothwithstanding the verdict)
G. Appeal of post settlement orders
H. Not a final judgment: interlocutory appeal
I. Not a final judgment: mandamus
J. Other (e.g., pre-trial orders, rulings on motions, directed verdicts) or could not determine nature of final judgment
K. Does not fit any of the above categories, but opinion mentions a "trial judge"
L. Not applicable (e.g., decision below was by a federal administrative agency, tax court)
Answer:

Answer: A