Task: songer_counsel1

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

FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.
Alice Williams and John Williams, parties defendant in a complaint filed March 17, 1950, by the United States under Section 206 Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1891 et seq., filed an answer by their attorneys Loehtan and Wolfe. By leave of the trial court, granted February 25, 1952, these attorneys withdrew their appearances for both defendants. A stipulation, dated June 19, 1952, executed by different attorneys on behalf of these defendants was thereafter filed below. This stipulation waived findings of fact and conclusions of law, providing further that both Williams’ “Agree and consent to the entry of Judgment * * Judgment was then entered on the stipulation, June 20, 1952. After a petition for civil contempt was filed, attorneys Lochtan and Wolfe reappeared; moved for equitable relief and modification of the decree entered pursuant to the stipulation of substituted counsel.
Relief was rightly denied by the same district judge who entered the basic decree “pursuant to the stipulation of the parties * * * ” See: Hot Springs Coal Co. v. Miller, 10 Cir., 1939, 107 F.2d 677.
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.
SWAIM, Circuit Judge, concurs in the result.

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