Task: songer_method

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to determine the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for the case, that is, the legal history of the case, indicating whether there had been prior appellate court proceeding on the same case prior to the decision currently coded. Assume that the case had been decided by the panel for the first time if there was no indication to the contrary in the opinion. The opinion usually, but not always, explicitly indicates when a decision was made "en banc" (though the spelling of "en banc" varies). However, if more than 3 judges were listed as participating in the decision, code the decision as enbanc even if there was no explicit description of the proceeding as en banc.

PER CURIAM.
The Tax Court from the proofs in the case correctly found that less than one half of the support received by taxpayer’s son for the year 1959 was received from taxpayer. Under Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, in order for taxpayer to be entitled to claim his son as a dependent for the year 19.59, over half of the son’s support for that year had to have been received from the taxpayer. We find completely without merit the contentions of taxpayer (a) that the health insurance benefits received by the son under a medical insurance policy rather than the premium paid by taxpayer for the policy should be accepted as part of his support of the child and (b) that the support furnished the son by his mother and her sister and the latter’s husband prior to the mother being awarded custody of the boy by the state court should not be considered as part of the support furnished the son.
The decision of the Tax Court will be affirmed.

Question: What is the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for this case?
A. decided by panel for first time (no indication of re-hearing or remand)
B. decided by panel after re-hearing (second time this case has been heard by this same panel)
C. decided by panel after remand from Supreme Court
D. decided by court en banc, after single panel decision
E. decided by court en banc, after multiple panel decisions
F. decided by court en banc, no prior panel decisions
G. decided by panel after remand to lower court
H. other
I. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A