Task: songer_appel2_7_2

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.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the second listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine the gender of this litigant. Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity (e.g., the sex of "Chris" should be coded as "not ascertained").

ORDER
We filed an opinion in this cause on March 18,1987, 814 F.2d 290, affirming the decision of the district court and denying plaintiffs the relief sought for alleged misappropriation of their copyrighted and trademark materials and ideas in the advertising plan in controversy. The petition for rehearing asserts that we failed to reach two issues in our prior opinion. First, the misappropriation claim included the contention that defendants, through governmental and state action, had taken their property without compensation within the meaning of the fifth amendment. Our opinion does not specifically mention the fifth amendment claim. It is clear, however, that our holding was to the effect that as a matter of law there was no “taking” of plaintiffs’ materials and concepts and those utilized by defendants. We found no error in the district court’s conclusion that defendants had not used, appropriated, or benefitted from plaintiffs’ property in the form of ideas, materials, or advertising concepts. There was, then, no violation of plaintiffs’ claimed fifth amendment rights.
Plaintiffs also assert that we failed to address their claims of “direct photocopying by defendants” of “copyrighted advertising program plan at the direction of two of the highest officials in the Michigan Department of Commerce.” This contention involves the statement made in (plaintiffs’ brief that two state officials had kept two photocopies of some of the copyrighted material. This photocopying was assertedly discovered during plaintiffs’ Michigan Freedom of Information Act investigation following selection by defendants of another advertising program.
It is not clear whether defendants asserted “fair use” as an affirmative defense in this case, nor whether there may have been a technical, although possibly de minimis non curat lex violation of 17 U.S.C. § 106 in the alleged retention of photocopies by two state officials. This question was not specifically addressed by the district court in his decision nor does it appear that this failure to address this issue was called to his attention by the parties. We believe it is best for the district court in the first instance to address this contention. We therefore REMAND the question of alleged photocopying by state officials and whether, if it occurred, this constituted a violation of plaintiffs’ claimed rights in any respect in light of the record made by the parties.

Question: This question concerns the second listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". What is the gender of this litigant?Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity.
A. not ascertained
B. male - indication in opinion (e.g., use of masculine pronoun)
C. male - assumed because of name
D. female - indication in opinion of gender
E. female - assumed because of name
Answer:

Answer: C