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.

ORDER.
Petitioners claimed as deductions in their 1960 income tax returns their pro rata shares of losses sustained by Ken-tuckiana Broadcasting, Inc., an electing small business corporation under Sub-chapter S of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, during the fiscal year ending October 31, 1960. The required election in the name of Kentuckiana was filed by petitioners, along with their consent as shareholders, on November 30, 1959. Kentuckiana’s charter was issued by the State of Kentucky subsequent to the purported election, and respondent disallowed the claimed deductions. From an adverse decision by the Tax Court petitioners appeal.
It being the opinion of the Court that the findings of fact by the Tax Court are not clearly erroneous, and that the ruling by the Tax Court that there must be “strict compliance” with the statutory requirements is correct,
It is ordered that the decision of the Tax Court, entered June 28, 1965, be and hereby is affirmed for the reasons set forth in Judge Bruce’s opinion, reported in 44 T.C. 485.

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: B