Task: songer_counsel2

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
Your task is to determine the nature of the counsel for the respondent. If name of attorney was given with no other indication of affiliation, assume it is private - unless a government agency was the party

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 nature of the counsel for the respondent?
A. none (pro se)
B. court appointed
C. legal aid or public defender
D. private
E. government - US
F. government - state or local
G. interest group, union, professional group
H. other or not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: E