Task: songer_initiate

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to identify what party initiated the appeal. For cases with cross appeals or multiple docket numbers, if the opinion does not explicitly indicate which appeal was filed first, assumes that the first litigant listed as the "appellant" or "petitioner" was the first to file the appeal. In federal habeas corpus petitions, consider the prisoner to be the plaintiff.

PER CURIAM:
In this second go around Taxpayer asserts that brokerage and related expenditures in the purchase of securities are not to be added to the price paid to the seller but should be deducted as an expense. Similarly, he argues that such costs of sale are not to be deducted from the sales proceeds from the buyer. Despite the earnestness of his contentions they come too late. For the law has held to the contrary. Woodward v. Commissioner, 1970, 397 U.S. 572, 574—75, 90 S.Ct. 1302, 1304, 25 L.Ed.2d 577, 581; Spreckles v. Commissioner (Helvering), 1942, 315 U.S. 626, 62 S.Ct. 777, 86 L.Ed. 1073; Commissioner (Helvering) v. Winmill, 1938, 305 U.S. 79, 59 S.Ct. 45, 83 L.Ed. 52; Meade v. Commissioner, 5 Cir., 1974, 489 F.2d 161; Helis v. Usry, 5 Cir., 1972, 464 F.2d 330.
Affirmed.
. Baker v. District Director, 5 Cir., 1972, 468 F.2d 199.

Question: What party initiated the appeal?
A. Original plaintiff
B. Original defendant
C. Federal agency representing plaintiff
D. Federal agency representing defendant
E. Intervenor
F. Not applicable
G. Not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A