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.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico discharging its writ of certiorari issued to review a judgment of the insular District Court of Puerto Rico, Section of Bayamon, wherein the appellant was found guilty of counseling a riot in violation of §§ 47 and 359 of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico and sentenced to six months in jail.
The appellant did not raise any question of federal law in either the insular District Court or in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico prior to a motion for reconsideration filed in the latter court which was denied without opinion, and no reason appears why the federal question which he then presented could not have been raised at an earlier stage of the proceeding. Thus the federal question which this court held in Romero v. People of Puerto Rico, 1 Cir., 1950, 182 F.2d 864, to be essential to our appellate jurisdiction in cases like the present was not raised in season, for in Prensa Insular de Puerto Rico v. People of Puerto Rico, 1 Cir., 1951, 189 F.2d 1019, 1022, this court said that the federal question required to give us jurisdiction over appeals from the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in criminal cases, “when it could have been raised earlier, comes too late when it is raised for the first time in a motion for reconsideration” which is denied by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico without an opinion.
The appellee’s motion to dismiss this appeal under Rule 39 of this court is therefore granted, and,
The appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

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