Task: songer_typeiss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court. Choose among the following categories. Criminal and prisioner petitions- includes appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence or the validity of continued confinement. Civil - Government - these will include appeals from administrative agencies (e.g., OSHA,FDA), the decisions of administrative law judges, or the decisions of independent regulatory agencies (e.g., NLRB, FCC,SEC). The focus in administrative law is usually on procedural principles that apply to administrative agencies as they affect private interests, primarily through rulemaking and adjudication. Tort actions against the government, including petitions by prisoners which challenge the conditions of their confinement or which seek damages for torts committed by prion officials or by police fit in this category. In addition, this category will include suits over taxes and claims for benefits from government. Diversity of Citizenship - civil cases involving disputes between citizens of different states (remember that businesses have state citizenship). These cases will always involve the application of state or local law. If the case is centrally concerned with the application or interpretation of federal law then it is not a diversity case. Civil Disputes - Private - includes all civil cases that do not fit in any of the above categories. The opposing litigants will be individuals, businesses or groups.

PER CURIAM:
The district court refused to sentence the appellant pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA), Pub.L. No. 98-473, tit. II, ch. II, 98 Stat.1987 (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 3551-3742 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 991-998 (Supp. IV 1986)), sentencing him, instead, according to prior law. The district court did, however, place the appellant on supervised release for a period of one year following release from prison, as provided in the SRA, 18 U.S.C. § 3583 (Supp. IV 1986). We subsequently held the Sentencing Reform Act to be unconstitutional. Gubiensio-Ortiz v. Kanahele, 857 F.2d 1245 (9th Cir.1988).
The only issue this appeal presents is whether the SRA’s supervised release provision is severable from the rest of the Act. We hold that it is not. The Act introduced a comprehensive revision of post-custodial supervision, abolishing parole and substantially curtailing the availability of good time credits. Gubiensio, at 1247. In Gubiensio, we considered the severability of the provision relating to good time credits and concluded: “Congress having chosen a ‘comprehensive’ approach to making sentencing more determinate, we will not sever companion sections of the guidelines system that would introduce piecemeal reforms.” Id. at 1268. We reach the same conclusion as to the supervised release provision. Severing the provision would leave in place two competing systems of post-custodial supervision — parole and probation under pre-SRA law and supervised release under the SRA. The simultaneous availability of both systems would be senseless.
Accordingly, we vacate appellant’s sentence and remand for resentencing in light of Gubiensio and this opinion. The mandate shall issue immediately. Fed.R.App.P. 2.

Question: What is the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court?
A. criminal and prisoner petitions
B. civil - government
C. diversity of citizenship
D. civil - private
E. other, not applicable
F. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A