Task: songer_method

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to determine the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for the case, that is, the legal history of the case, indicating whether there had been prior appellate court proceeding on the same case prior to the decision currently coded. Assume that the case had been decided by the panel for the first time if there was no indication to the contrary in the opinion. The opinion usually, but not always, explicitly indicates when a decision was made "en banc" (though the spelling of "en banc" varies). However, if more than 3 judges were listed as participating in the decision, code the decision as enbanc even if there was no explicit description of the proceeding as en banc.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.
It appearing that the appellant was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced for violation of the so-called Mann Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 398, that there was substantial evidence of interstate transportation of a woman for purposes of prostitution, debauchery, and other immoral purposes, and it being the view of the Court that the claim of the appellant, that he had contracted a common law marriage in Indiana with the Government’s principal witness and that common law marriages are recognized by Indiana law, has no bearing upon the issues involved, in view of evidence that the appellant had made engagements for her to engage in prostitution with others and had received the avails of such prostitution, and it also being the view of the Court that the trial was conducted in the court below without prejudicial error in respect to any material element involved, it is hereby ordered that the judgment below be, and it is hereby, affirmed.

Question: What is the nature of the proceeding in the court of appeals for this case?
A. decided by panel for first time (no indication of re-hearing or remand)
B. decided by panel after re-hearing (second time this case has been heard by this same panel)
C. decided by panel after remand from Supreme Court
D. decided by court en banc, after single panel decision
E. decided by court en banc, after multiple panel decisions
F. decided by court en banc, no prior panel decisions
G. decided by panel after remand to lower court
H. other
I. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A