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.
Appealing from a judgment which, dismissing plaintiff’s suit upon defendant’s motion, also dismissed intervenor from the suit, intervenor is here insisting that the judgment as to him must be reversed because (1), though permissive and not of right, his intervention was not ancillary but independent, and, therefore, survived the dismissal of plaintiff’s suit; and (2) it stated a recoverable claim for commissions due him, as agent of plaintiff, against both plaintiff and defendant.
We agree with intervenor: that, though permissive and not of right, his intervention was not ancillary to, but independent of, plaintiff’s suit; that, as such it survived the dismissal of that suit; that it stated a claim against the plaintiff; and that, because it did, the judgment must be reversed as to plaintiff, with costs to intervenor. No recoverable claim, however, was stated as to defendant. The judgment dismissing the intervention as to it is, therefore, affirmed with costs to defendant against the plaintiff-appellant because, having failed to prosecute it, its appeal is dismissed, and against the intervenor-ap-peliant because, as to the defendant, the judgment he appealed from is affirmed.
Plaintiff’s appeal is Dismissed. On in-tervenor’s appeal the judgment is affirmed as to defendant and reversed as to plaintiff.
. 28 U.S.C. § 1332, Rule 24, Fed.Rules Civ.Proc. 28 U.S.C.; Hunt Tool Co. v. Moore, 5 Cir., 212 F.2d 685.
. Adopting plaintiff’s allegations that it had entered into a contract with defendant for the sale to, and purchase by, it of 2000 air conditioners, intervenor’s claim was that it had made the sale as agent for the plaintiff for a commission of 2 percent of the gross sales price, or $6997.26, agreed upon between them.

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: D