Task: songer_interven

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 whether one or more individuals or groups sought to formally intervene in the appeals court consideration of the case.

PER curiam:.
This appellant was first committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in 1925 and, except for two periods of release, has been under treatment there continuously. Upon the filing of the petition for this writ of habeas corpus, a full hearing was had by the court, at which several witnesses, including psychiatrists and members of her family, testified. The petitioner herself testified. The court concluded that she continued to be of unsound mind and recommitted her to the custody of the authorities at St. Elizabeth’s. We find nothing in the record to throw doubt upon the validity of the conclusions of the trial court, and its judgment is, therefore,
Affirmed.

Question: Did one or more individuals or groups seek to formally intervene in the appeals court consideration of the case?
A. no intervenor in case
B. intervenor = appellant
C. intervenor = respondent
D. yes, both appellant & respondent
E. not applicable
Answer:

Answer: A