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.

PER CURIAM.
A careful examination of the entire record before the court without regard to “technical errors, defects, or exceptions which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties”, as required by Section 391, 28 U.S.C.A., makes it dear that the proceedings in the court below were conducted in strict accordance with Rule 61, Federal Rules, Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c, which requires “the court at every stage of the proceeding must disregard any error or defect * * * which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties”, and that the judgment must be affirmed.
Affirmed.

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