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.
There is substantial evidence to support the verdict and judgment. There are no exceptions to the charge to the jury. The assignments of error do not properly challenge rulings on the evidence. Most of such rulings^ moreover, were not prejudicial by reason of the charge of the court withdrawing from the consideration of the jury the issues to which such evidence was addressed. The judgment is affirmed, the application of appellee for the imposition of a penalty for a frivolous appeal is denied, as the judgment bears interest at 6 per cent., and the appeal was evidently undertaken and prosecuted in good faith.
Affirmed.

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