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.
Petitioner seeks a review of an order of the Judicial officer of the s. De. partment of Agriculture acting for the Secretary of Agriculture, suspending petitioner’s registration under the Packers and stockyards Act, 7 U.S.C.A. § 181 et seq., as a dealer in livestock in the Union Stockyards, Chicago, Illinois.
The issues here involved are identical to those decided by this court in Celia v. United States of America, 7 Cir., 208 F. 2d 783. Based upon the authority of our decision in the Celia case, the order here-in of the Judicial Officer, acting for the Secretary of Agriculture, is
Affirmed.

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