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 defendant. 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:
We affirmed, 455 F.2d 1406, the conviction of John Leslie Lenhard for failing to report and submit to induction into the armed forces in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462 (1964). In response to Lenhard’s petition for a writ of certi-orari, the Solicitor General asserted a position different from that previously advanced by the United States in this court and urged the Supreme Court to grant the petition, vacate our judgment and reverse the conviction. The Supreme Court granted the petition, vacated our judgment and remanded the case to us for consideration in light of the Solicitor General’s newly asserted position. 405 U.S. 1013, 92 S.Ct. 1296, 31 L.Ed.2d 477 (1972).
Accordingly, we reverse Lenhard’s conviction.

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

Answer: B