Task: songer_treat

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the disposition by the court of appeals of the decision of the court or agency below; i.e., how the decision below is "treated" by the appeals court. That is, the basic outcome of the case for the litigants, indicating whether the appellant or respondent "won" in the court of appeals.

OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM:
This action challenges an August 3, 1972, district court decree dismissing an in forma pauperis action as frivolous pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d).
The Complaint alleges a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, resulting from the denial in July 1972 to plaintiff, a state prisoner, of the privilege to visit with a friend, to whom he had sent the required visiting pass “granted any inmate in the Pennsylvania institutional system.” It is alleged that “it is [plaintiff’s] belief” that such denial was “directed at him in an effort to harass and discourage the [named] visitor from ever attempting to .visit him.” Subsequently, petitioner received “no visits.” Finally, the Complaint alleges that “the action by the officials was merely the unwarranted result of the way they the officials subject the Black inmate and his family to harassment and degradation.”
Such allegations must be liberally construed. Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 92 S.Ct. 594, 30 L.Ed.2d 618 (1972); United States ex rel. Tyrrell v. Speaker, 471 F.2d 1197 (3d Cir. 1973). A refusal to allow a prisoner visitors because of his race would violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. See, e. g., Rowland v. Wolf, 336 F.Supp. 257 (D.Neb.1971). And it is conceivable that the denial of visitation privileges without a reasonable justification might amount to cruel and unusual punishment. See Almond v. Kent, 459 F.2d 200, 204 (4th Cir. 1972); United States ex rel. Raymond v. Rundle, 276 F.Supp. 637 (E.D.Pa.1967); Hollen, Emerging Prisoners’ Rights, 33 Ohio St.L.J. 1, 64-68 (1972). At the minimum, the district court should direct service on the defendants and require the filing of a motion or a responsive pleading to the Complaint. See Haines v. Kerner, supra.
For the foregoing reasons, the district court order of August 3, 1972, will be vacated and the case remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
. “Every person who, under color of any regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen . to the deprivation of any rights [or] privileges . . . secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable in an action at law, suit in equity . . . for redress.”

Question: What is the disposition by the court of appeals of the decision of the court or agency below?
A. stay, petition, or motion granted
B. affirmed; or affirmed and petition denied
C. reversed (include reversed & vacated)
D. reversed and remanded (or just remanded)
E. vacated and remanded (also set aside & remanded; modified and remanded)
F. affirmed in part and reversed in part (or modified or affirmed and modified)
G. affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded; affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded
H. vacated
I. petition denied or appeal dismissed
J. certification to another court
K. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: E