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.
The appellant did not choose to avail himself of the method laid down by equity rule 75. He never filed a praecipe at all, which should state those parts of the “record to be incorporated,” and which should be accompanied by proof of service upon the appellee. This is quite different from “the evidence to be included in the record,” a statement, of which must be filed at or before the filing of the praseipe, of which the appellee should be notified. Instead of this he attempted to get an agreement with the appellee, and upon failing to do so filed the statement of evidence, with an indorsement that it was his “praecipe” of the evidence. This was not a praecipe at all; moreover, it was never served on the appellee. Nothing was accomplished by it.
The parties thereafter kept on with their negotiations with increasing acerbity until they broke off communications in February, and the appellee procured an ex parte order dismissing the appeal, of which the appellant got notice on February 28th. Even then he did nothing until the appellee moved to secure a repetition of the dismissal, this time on notice. Then the appellant moved for leave to lodge and file the statement and a praecipe.
There will, of course, often be occasions when an appellant, who has failed to proceed under the rules, can be excused. Among these will be the fact that the appellee has led him to expect that no advantage will be taken of his defaults. We cannot see that this is the ease here. On the contrary, it is not shown that the appellee did not in good faith try to co-operate in settling the statement; any inference to be drawn is rather that the appellant did not wish to expedite the appeal. This is especially apparent from the delay of over two months after notice of the ex parte order of dismissal. Had the appellant sought relief seasonably, the cause would have been argued at this term; as it is, it would have to go over to the autumn, and the settlement which the bill challenges must be held up meanwhile. The case was one for dispatch, and we can see no excuse for the appellant’s delays.
Motion to vacate denied.

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