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.
The appellants were found guilty by a jury and sentenced in the court below for conspiracy to defraud the United States in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. ■§ 371 with respect to the valuation of lands taken for public highway purposes. They appealed to this court and now, while their appeals are pending and before argument, they have moved that the indictments under which they were tried Be dismissed. The ground for this extraordinary action asserted in the motions is that the post-conviction activities •of the Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program of the Committee on Public Works of the United States House of Representatives, the so-called “Blatnik Committee,” and the wide-spread publicity given thereto, has, consciously or unconsciously, so influenced and prejudiced the judges of this court against them that they have been deprived forever of their constitutional right to have their appeals decided by a fair minded, unbiased court.
It is enough to say that on these appeals this court is concerned with questions of law and that we entertain no doubt at all of our capacity fairly and impartially to decide whatever questions of that nature may come before us on these appeals uninfluenced by the publicity attendant upon the activities of the “Blatnik Committee.”
Orders will be entered denying the motions.

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