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 insisted upon the part of the plaintiff in error that the verdict and judgment are not sustained by sufficient evidence, and that for this reason the court erred in overruling defendant’s motion, renewed at the close of all the evidence, for' a directed verdict. This question does not involve the weight of the evidence. If there was any substantial evidence tending to prove that the defendant was guilty of all or either of the specifications of negligence alleged in the petition, and that such negligence was the proximate cause of defendant’s injury, then the motion for a directed verdict was properly overruled.
The testimony of the plaintiff himself fully supports the verdict and judgment. Its truth or falsity was a question for the jury. In this connection it is urged on behalf of the plaintiff in error that the testimony of the plaintiff, in all matters material to a recovery, is specifically contradicted by a number of witnesses who had at least equal, if not better, opportunity than plaintiff to know the facts. This has no application to the sufficiency of the evidence, but, on the contrary, involves the question of the weight of the evidence, and for that reason cannot be considered or determined by this court. Goodwin et al. v. U. S., 2 F. (2d) 200 (C. C. A. 6).
It is further contended that the court erred in its charge to the jury in reference to the alleged failure of the defendant to instruct the plaintiff as to the manner and method of performing his duties and its failure to apprise him of all the dangers or hazards, if any there were, incident to the work he was employed to do. No exceptions were taken to the charge in this respect, and for that reason this assignment of error must be disregarded. Substantially the same question is presented, however, in the defendant’s request to charge, in effect, that the plaintiff could not recover upon any assignment of negligence, other than leaky and defective valves. This request was refused and exceptions noted.
The defendant, without objection to the sufficiency of the allegations of negligence in the petition, denied specifically each and every assignment of negligence contained therein. Upon the issue so joined, evidence offered by both plaintiff and defendant was properly admitted, tending to prove the plaintiff’s experience or lack of experience, his knowledge or lack of knowledge of the dangers incident to his employment, whether he had been fully advised by the plaintiff in reference to these dangers, if any, and the manner and method by which he might perform these duties with comparative safety to himself. It was not until after all this evidence had been offered and admitted without objection, and the court had charged the jury in reference to the matters to which this evidence was directed, that the defendant by this request asked the court to withdraw all assignments o f negligence from the jury, except the question of defective valves. The objection to the sufficiency of these allegations of negligence was not timely made.
If there was any merit in the objections of the defendant to the sufficiency of the petition as to these other specifications of negligence, made for the first time after all the evidence had been introduced and the court had charged the jury, it would have been the duty of the court to permit the plaintiff to amend his petition to conform to the proofs. R. S. § 954 (Comp. St. § 1591). In view of the fact that defendant had accepted the issues as tendered by the petition, this was unnecessary, and certainly the failure of the court to do so would not be prejudicial error. Section 269, Judicial Code. (Comp. St. § 1246).
The judgment is affirmed, with costs, and cause remanded.

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: G