Task: songer_genresp1

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.
In some cases there is some confusion over who should be listed as the appellant and who as the respondent. This confusion is primarily the result of the presence of multiple docket numbers consolidated into a single appeal that is disposed of by a single opinion. Most frequently, this occurs when there are cross appeals and/or when one litigant sued (or was sued by) multiple litigants that were originally filed in district court as separate actions. The coding rule followed in such cases should be to go strictly by the designation provided in the title of the case. The first person listed in the title as the appellant should be coded as the appellant even if they subsequently appeared in a second docket number as the respondent and regardless of who was characterized as the appellant in the opinion.
To clarify the coding conventions, consider the following hypothetical case in which the US Justice Department sues a labor union to strike down a racially discriminatory seniority system and the corporation (siding with the position of its union) simultaneously sues the government to get an injunction to block enforcement of the relevant civil rights law. From a district court decision that consolidated the two suits and declared the seniority system illegal but refused to impose financial penalties on the union, the corporation appeals and the government and union file cross appeals from the decision in the suit brought by the government. Assume the case was listed in the Federal Reporter as follows:
United States of America,
Plaintiff, Appellant
v
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendant, Appellee.
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendants, Cross-appellants
v
United States of America.
Widgets, Inc. & Susan Kuersten Sheehan, President & Chairman
of the Board
Plaintiff, Appellants,
v
United States of America,
Defendant, Appellee.
This case should be coded as follows:Appellant = United States, Respondents = International Brotherhood of Widget Workers Widgets, Inc., Total number of appellants = 1, Number of appellants that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officials" = 1, Total number of respondents = 3, Number of respondents that fall into the category "private business and its executives" = 2, Number of respondents that fall into the category "groups and associations" = 1.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 
Your task is to determine the nature of the first listed respondent.

DONAHUE, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It is clear, from this evideneé introduced by the plaintiff, that there was no written contract and no written memorandum of any claimed verbal contract signed by the Borderland Company. So far as appears from this record, the Borderland Company would have been justified in the belief that the rejection and return of this written order ended the transaction. It necessarily follows that whatever shipments were made, were made in pursuance of this verbal contract after the written memorandum or order had been rejected. It is also clear that the coal was not accepted by the Borderland Company or the Chicago ByProducts Corporation, the consignee, but on the contrary was rejected by the consignee because of excess volatile matter as, under the written memorandum rejected by the Dearborn Company, the defendant and the By-Products Company had a right to do.
It is claimed, however, that the Borderland Company exercised acts of ownership over this coal by reselling it at a profit. This contention is not sustained by the evidence. The Borderland Company is a coal broker, and was known to be such by the plaintiff. The order to ship to the By-Products Company was a part of the original oral negotiations, and contemplated no delivery whatever to the Borderland Company, but on the contrary delivery by the Dear-born Company as consignor direct to the consumer, the By-Products Corporation, as consignee. It was all part and parcel of the same transaction. 'In this respect it differs materially from the cases' cited in the brief of counsel for plaintiff in error.
It is further claimed that, after 32 ears of this coal had been shipped upon this verbal contract, the Borderland Company, through Bonnell, assented to become the owner of these specific goods. This claim is based on the testimony of Pierce that the next day after he had rejected and returned the written memorandum of contract he told Bonnell over the telephone that 32 earloads of this coal were then in transit, and that Bonnell said “that he would handle it.” In view of the facts known to the plaintiff at the time, that the Borderland Company was not buying this coal for its own use, but was buying it as a means of filling its existing coal broker’s contract with the By-Products Company, that the final delivery and the first opportunity for'inspection would be on the tracks of the By-Products Company, and that the coal would continue in the possession of the carrier until final delivery, the statement by Bonnell that he would “handle it” cannot be construed as an assent by the Borderland Company, before delivery, to become the owner of the coal shipped under the verbal contract, even if the rejection and return of the written order and Jailure of defendant to modify and return the same would not have the effect of canceling the verbal order and ending the transaction. However, whether or not this promise to “handle it” amounts to an acceptance under section 8384 (3), there was not, under the recited circumstances, the “actual receipt” which section 8384 (1) requires in addition to acceptance.
Judgment affirmed.

Question: What is the nature of the first listed respondent?
A. private business (including criminal enterprises)
B. private organization or association
C. federal government (including DC)
D. sub-state government (e.g., county, local, special district)
E. state government (includes territories & commonwealths)
F. government - level not ascertained
G. natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)
H. miscellaneous
I. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A