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.

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.
On February 28, 1968 plaintiffs Sherman H. Skolnick and Jean MacDonald, acting pro se, filed a complaint in the district court seeking compliance by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and its chairman with the provisions of the public information section of the Administrative Procedure Act. 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Supp. Y, 1970).
Plaintiffs allege that the Commission wrongfully suppressed a report, “The Fruits of Racism,” which had been submitted to it in the course of its investigations and that this suppression was violative of the duty imposed by Section 552(a) (3) which requires that:
[E]ach agency [defined in § 551(a) as “each authority of the Government of the United States,” with certain exceptions] * * '* shall make * * * [requested] records promptly available to any person.
The complaint was dismissed on March 4, 1968 by the Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois which ruled that “the complaint states no cause of action justiciable in this Court.” Plaintiffs appeal from the order of dismissal.
Shortly after the complaint was filed and before its dismissal, the Commission filed its final report. The Government contends that by this act the Commission was automatically dissolved and that any suit then pending against it abated. We agree and therefore need not reach the Government’s additional arguments that the Commission was not a suable entity and, in any event, was not properly served with process.
The Commission was established by Executive Order 11365, 3 C.F.R. 310 (Supp.1967), which provides that:
The Commission shall make an interim report as to its findings of fact not later than March 1, 1968, and shall present its final report and recommendations not later than one year from the date of this order [July 29, 1967]. It shall terminate upon presenting its final report and recommendations.
In its report, dated March 1, 1968, the Commission stated that a sense of urgency concerning the problems it had explored led it to “consolidate in this single report the interim and final reports called for by the President.” Thus pursuant to the terms of the order which created it, the Commission dissolved on March 1, 1968.
We believe that our recent decision in Skolnick v. Parsons, 397 F.2d 523 (7th Cir. 1968), is determinative of the issues raised by plaintiffs. In Parsons, the plaintiff attempted to compel the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice to release a report which the Commission had allegedly suppressed. We there held that “any mandamus type of action against [the Commission] abated when the Commission terminated.” 397 F.2d at 525. It appears that in Parsons the complaint was not filed until after the termination of the Commission’s existence while the complaint here was filed a few days prior to the Commission’s dissolution. However, we placed no reliance on that fact in Parsons, but based our decision on reasons equally applicable to the instant situation.
Parsons requires that a pending suit, even if properly instituted against an existing governmental agency, abate when the agency dissolves without a successor assuming its powers and functions. On March 1, 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders became functus officio, and no other governmental officer or authority was appointed to succeed to any of its duties. Consequently there would be no one against whom a decree requiring the production of the allegedly suppressed document could operate. We therefore hold that there is no available remedy and that the plaintiffs’ suit abated on the dissolution of the Commission without a successor.
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
. Sec Skolnick v. Parsons, 397 F.2d 523, 525-26 (7th Cir. 1968), for a description of this committee and the manner in which it screens complaints submitted by pro se litigants. That case is dispositive of plaintiffs’ contention that the procedure according to which the Executive Committee operates violates due process.
. Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, p. 15 (March 1, 1968).

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: B