Task: songer_typeiss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court. Choose among the following categories. Criminal and prisioner petitions- includes appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence or the validity of continued confinement. Civil - Government - these will include appeals from administrative agencies (e.g., OSHA,FDA), the decisions of administrative law judges, or the decisions of independent regulatory agencies (e.g., NLRB, FCC,SEC). The focus in administrative law is usually on procedural principles that apply to administrative agencies as they affect private interests, primarily through rulemaking and adjudication. Tort actions against the government, including petitions by prisoners which challenge the conditions of their confinement or which seek damages for torts committed by prion officials or by police fit in this category. In addition, this category will include suits over taxes and claims for benefits from government. Diversity of Citizenship - civil cases involving disputes between citizens of different states (remember that businesses have state citizenship). These cases will always involve the application of state or local law. If the case is centrally concerned with the application or interpretation of federal law then it is not a diversity case. Civil Disputes - Private - includes all civil cases that do not fit in any of the above categories. The opposing litigants will be individuals, businesses or groups.

PER CURIAM.
Both petitioners appeal from an order which directed the return of business records of the corporation, unlawfully seized, and forbade the use of the evidence against the corporation upon the trial of any indictment which might be filed against it; but which denied that relief to Lagow, the sole shareholder and officer of the corporation. Since at the time the petition was filed no indictment had been found, the appeal lies under Cogen v. United States, 278 U. S. 221, 49 S.Ct. 118, 73 L.Ed. 275.
We cannot understand what the corporation wishes more than it has obtained; and, as no point is made of the inadequacy of its relief, we shall treat as the only question involved, whether, the judge having declared the search illegal, Lagow may prevent the use against him of any information so acquired. When a man chooses to avail himself of the privilege of doing business as a corporation, even though he is its sole shareholder, he may not vicariously take on the privilege of the corporation under the Fourth Amendment; documents which he could have protected from seizure, if they had been his own, may be' used against him, no matter how they were obtained from the corporation. Its wrongs are not his wrongs; its immunity is not his immunity. This we have four times decided. In re Dooley, 2 Cir., 48 F.2d 121; United States v. De Vasto, 2 Cir., 52 F.2d 26, 78 A.L.R. 336; Connolly v. Medalie, 2 Cir., 58 F.2d 629; United States v. Antonelli Fireworks Co., 2 Cir., 155 F.2d 631, 636. Nor, with deference can we accept the ruling in United States v. Janitz, D.C., 6 F.R.D. 1, that Rule 41(e) of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A. following section 687, has changed the law. The committee expressly declared that they had no intention of doing so; nor is there anything in the text to force us to defeat that intention. We readily read the phrase, “A person aggrieved,” in the rule to cover only those persons who had been deemed “aggrieved” before.
Order affirmed.

Question: What is the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court?
A. criminal and prisoner petitions
B. civil - government
C. diversity of citizenship
D. civil - private
E. other, not applicable
F. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A