Task: songer_counsel2

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 respondent. If name of attorney was given with no other indication of affiliation, assume it is private - unless a government agency was the party

MANTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit in equity by the trustee to recover a preference under section 67e of the Bankruptcy Act (11 USCA § 107 (e). The bill is in equity, and alleges the transfer to have been voidable, having been made within four months prior to the filing of the petition in bankruptcy. A motion is made to dismiss the appeal for the reason that it was not taken within 30 days, the time prescribed by section 24c of the Bankruptcy Aet (11 USCA § 47 (e). It was taken within 90 days after the deeree was entered. For the reasons which we have stated in Lowenstein v. Reikes, 54 F.(2d) 481, decided this day, the motion herein is denied.
Motion denied.

Question: What is the nature of the counsel for the respondent?
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