This variable identifies the state if the state or any one of the below is the petitioner. The exceptions are courts, judicial districts, or judges. If they are federal courts or federal judges, the “state” is always the United States. The same holds for other federal employees or officials.

• specified state board or department of education
• city, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
• state commission, board, committee, or authority
• county government or county governmental unit
• state department or agency
• court or judicial district
• governmental employee or job applicant
• female governmental employee or job applicant
• minority governmental employee or job applicant
• minority female governmental employee or job applicant
• federal government corporation
• retired or former governmental employee
• U.S. House of Representatives
• interstate compact
• judge
• state legislature, house, or committee
• local governmental unit other than a county, city, town, township, village, or borough
• governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
• state or U.S. supreme court
• local school district or board of education
• U.S. Senate
• U.S. senator
• foreign nation or instrumentality
• state or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of state college or university

See Petitioner variable for more details.