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

ORDER
This order is entered pursuant to the mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States filed in the office of the clerk of this court on June 22,1978. In our decision reported at 552 F.2d 159 (1977), we held that the Debtor, Ike Slodov, was personally liable under 26 U.S.C. § 6672 for a tax liability of corporations which he controlled for unpaid taxes withheld from wages prior to his assumption of control. The Supreme Court granted the certiorari, 434 U.S. 817, 98 S.Ct. 54, 54 L.Ed.2d 72 (1977), and thereafter reversed that portion of the judgment of this court which held the Debtor liable for wage withholding and FICA taxes required to be collected from employees’ wages prior to January 31, 1969. Slodov, Petitioner v. United States,-U.S.-, 98 S.Ct. 1778, 56 L.Ed.2d 251 (1978).
This cause is remanded to the district court with directions to reinstate that portion of its previous judgment in favor of the Debtor Ike Slodov with respect to taxes required to be collected from employees’ wages prior to January 31, 1969.

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