Task: songer_counsel1

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.
Your task is to determine the nature of the counsel for the appellant. If name of attorney was given with no other indication of affiliation, assume it is private - unless a government agency was the party

PER CURIAM.
These are writs of error to the municipal court, and involve an interpretation of the Act of June 4,1924 (43 Stat. 367). Since the facts in these cases do not differ materially from the facts in District of Columbia v. Newman (No. 4803) 59 App. D. C. 163, 37 F.(2d) 444, decided February 25, 1929, in which an application for rehearing has this day been denied, the judgments in these eases are affirmed, with costs, on the authority of that case.
Affirmed, with costs.

Question: What is the nature of the counsel for the appellant?
A. none (pro se)
B. court appointed
C. legal aid or public defender
D. private
E. government - US
F. government - state or local
G. interest group, union, professional group
H. other or not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: D