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 the position of the prisoner; for those who claim their voting rights have been violated; for desegregation or for the most extensive desegregation if alternative plans are at issue; for the rights of the racial minority or women (i.e., opposing the claim of reverse discrimination); for upholding the position of the person asserting the denial of their rights. 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:
In July 1982, Bethell was arrested eight miles beyond Florida territorial boundaries by Florida agents and charged with a violation of Fla.Stat. § 370.1105(2) (1983), which prohibits the possession of fish traps and the taking of finfish with fish traps. Bet-hell filed this civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982), seeking a declaration that the statute was unconstitutional as applied outside the boundaries of the state, preliminary and permanent injunctions against its extraterritorial application, and damages. The district court granted Bet-hell summary judgment regarding the constitutionality of the statute, and issued a permanent injunction against its application outside Florida boundaries. The court reserved ruling on the issue of damages. The State appeals; we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1) (1982) (allowing interlocutory appeal from an order granting an injunction).
Since the State’s appeal, the Florida Supreme Court has construed section 370.-1105(2), under which Bethell was arrested, and determined that it does not apply outside the territorial boundaries of the state. Southeastern Fisheries Association, Inc. v. Department of Natural Resources, 453 So.2d 1351 (Fla.1984). Accordingly, we no longer have a live controversy before us on this issue. We thus are obliged to vacate the district court’s order granting injunc-tive relief and to remand the case for disposition of any remaining claims. See Hall v. Beals, 396 U.S. 45, 90 S.Ct. 200, 201-02, 24 L.Ed.2d 214 (1969) (vacating judgment and remanding case which had “lost its character as a present, live controversy of the kind that must exist if we are to avoid advisory opinions on abstract propositions of law.”)
VACATED and REMANDED.

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

Answer: B