Task: songer_counsel1

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 appellant. 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:
The plaintiffs seek to test their tax liabilities in an action for an injunction and for removal of the cloud cast upon their properties by the tax liens. The judgment of the District Court dismissing these complaints is affirmed for the reasons stated by the District Judge
We recently considered similar contentions and held them unavailing. At about the same time the Second and Third Circuits arrived at the same conclusion.
Affirmed.
. 235 F.Supp. 276.
. Broadwell v. United States, 4 Cir., 343 F.2d 470.
. Falik v. United States, 2 Cir., 343 F.2d 38; Quinn v. Hook, 3 Cir., 341 F.2d 920.

Question: What is the nature of the counsel for the appellant?
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: D