Task: songer_method

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to determine the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for the case, that is, the legal history of the case, indicating whether there had been prior appellate court proceeding on the same case prior to the decision currently coded. Assume that the case had been decided by the panel for the first time if there was no indication to the contrary in the opinion. The opinion usually, but not always, explicitly indicates when a decision was made "en banc" (though the spelling of "en banc" varies). However, if more than 3 judges were listed as participating in the decision, code the decision as enbanc even if there was no explicit description of the proceeding as en banc.

PER CURIAM.
This is a companion case to No. 16,158, Maenza v. United States, 242 F.2d 339, and the parties agree that the facts of the two cases are identical. Presented is an appeal from an order of the Court below dismissing petition by Maenza for writ of habeas corpus filed a few days before his trial in case No. 16,158.
The sole question involved in the hearing on the petition for habeas corpus was whether Maenza was lawfully within custody of the United States Marshal. The return filed by the Marshal and the proof showed that a Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana had entered an order to arrest petitioner upon an indictment there returned November 3, 1955; and that a Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a warrant of removal, upon the execution of which the Marshal assumed custody of petitioner.
The Judge of the Court below found that petitioner “is before the Court now as the result of his arrest on a valid warrant which issued from this Court by Judge Wright and certainly the Court in Chicago could not determine the question of his guilt or innocence on the federal charge of fleeing to avoid prosecution”.
The order dismissing the petition entered upon this finding was manifestly correct, and it is
Affirmed.

Question: What is the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for this case?
A. decided by panel for first time (no indication of re-hearing or remand)
B. decided by panel after re-hearing (second time this case has been heard by this same panel)
C. decided by panel after remand from Supreme Court
D. decided by court en banc, after single panel decision
E. decided by court en banc, after multiple panel decisions
F. decided by court en banc, no prior panel decisions
G. decided by panel after remand to lower court
H. other
I. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A