In this example, although 'deny' is rightly assigned a positive weight and 'moot' is rightly assigned a negative weight, when both features co-occur in a docket entry (as in 'deny as moot'), it makes the label negative.
8 the combined weight of the linear SVM is positive since the absolute value of the weight assigned to 'deny' is higher than that of 'moot', resulting in a net positive score.