Task: songer_counsel2

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

PER CURIAM.
Petition of appellant for extension of time for preparation of record on appeal and transmission to this Court denied; motions of appellees, The Emporium of St. Paul, Inc., Debtor, United Properties Incorporated, and Henry M. Kalscheuer, Trustee of The Emporium of St. Paul, Inc., debtor, to dismiss appeal granted and appeal from order of District Court entered in the Matter of The Emporium of St. Paul, Inc., Debtor, under date of October 16, 1944, confirming plan of reorganization and directing consummation thereof dismissed at costs of appellant.

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