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.

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a deportation proceeding arising under the Immigration Law. Deportation was ordered on the ground that the appellant was found managing a house of prostitution, or music or dance hall, or other place of amusement or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes. The testimony before the department was exceedingly brief and without substantial conflict. Two immigrant inspectors testified that they visited a rooming house in Sacramento and there met the appellant, by whom they were taken into one of the rooms. The appellant asked if they wanted a girl, stating that she had only one. The girl was then brought in, and the appellant asked whieh one would take her first, whereupon one of the inspectors took the girl into another room. The appellant was called as a witness in her own behalf, and while she denied that she herself had committed acts of prostitution at the rooming house, or that the rooming house was a house of prostitution, or that she had received any of the earnings of prostitutes, she made no denial of the facts testified to by the inspectors. On this record, the finding of the department was so far supported by the testimony as to preclude judicial interference.
The order of the court below 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