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.

OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM:
The issues which we are asked to decide on this appeal from a denial of ha-beas corpus are now before the United States Court of Military Appeals on a “motion for rehearing” filed in that court by the present appellant on December 6, 1966, and the Court of Military Appeals has directed that the matter be briefed and argued. In this posture of the matter any intervention by the civil courts would be untimely.
Accordingly, the district court’s denial of habeas corpus, 256 F.Supp. 679, will be affirmed.

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