Task: songer_direct1

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision, coded as "liberal" or "conservative". Consider liberal to be for government tax claim; for person claiming patent or copyright infringement; for the plaintiff alleging the injury; for economic underdog if one party is clearly an underdog in comparison to the other, neither party is clearly an economic underdog; in cases pitting an individual against a business, the individual is presumed to be the economic underdog unless there is a clear indication in the opinion to the contrary; for debtor or bankrupt; for government or private party raising claim of violation of antitrust laws, or party opposing merger; for the economic underdog in private conflict over securities; for individual claiming a benefit from government; for government in disputes over government contracts and government seizure of property; for government regulation in government regulation of business; for greater protection of the environment or greater consumer protection (even if anti-government); for the injured party in admiralty - personal injury; for economic underdog in admiralty and miscellaneous economic cases. Consider the directionality to be "mixed" if the directionality of the decision was intermediate to the extremes defined above or if the decision was mixed (e.g., the conviction of defendant in a criminal trial was affirmed on one count but reversed on a second count or if the conviction was afirmed but the sentence was reduced). Consider "not ascertained" if the directionality could not be determined or if the outcome could not be classified according to any conventional outcome standards.

PER CURIAM.
This appeal from an order entered on October 18, 1939, by the District Court for the District of Delaware making an allowance of compensation to the appellants as counsel for an independent stockholders’ committee in a proceeding for the reorganization of Donahoe’s, Incorporated, and Geo. K. Stevenson Company, debtors, under Chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 501 et seq., was taken by the appellants filing their notice of appeal in the District Court on November 15, 1939. The appeal was docketed in this court on December 28, 1939. No application, however, was made to this court for the allowance of the appeal as required by Section 250 of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 650, and on January 12, 1940, counsel for the debtor moved for that reason to dismiss the appeal. Action upon the motion to dismiss has been withheld pending a decision by the Supreme Court in the case of Dickinson Industrial Site, Inc., v. Cowan, where the identical question here presented was involved. A decision in that case has now been handed down (60 S.Ct. 595, 84 L.Ed.-) and on the authority thereof the motion must be granted.
The appeal is dismissed.

Question: What is the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision?
A. conservative
B. liberal
C. mixed
D. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: B