Task: songer_numresp

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.
In some cases there is some confusion over who should be listed as the appellant and who as the respondent. This confusion is primarily the result of the presence of multiple docket numbers consolidated into a single appeal that is disposed of by a single opinion. Most frequently, this occurs when there are cross appeals and/or when one litigant sued (or was sued by) multiple litigants that were originally filed in district court as separate actions. The coding rule followed in such cases should be to go strictly by the designation provided in the title of the case. The first person listed in the title as the appellant should be coded as the appellant even if they subsequently appeared in a second docket number as the respondent and regardless of who was characterized as the appellant in the opinion.
To clarify the coding conventions, consider the following hypothetical case in which the US Justice Department sues a labor union to strike down a racially discriminatory seniority system and the corporation (siding with the position of its union) simultaneously sues the government to get an injunction to block enforcement of the relevant civil rights law. From a district court decision that consolidated the two suits and declared the seniority system illegal but refused to impose financial penalties on the union, the corporation appeals and the government and union file cross appeals from the decision in the suit brought by the government. Assume the case was listed in the Federal Reporter as follows:
United States of America,
Plaintiff, Appellant
v
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendant, Appellee.
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendants, Cross-appellants
v
United States of America.
Widgets, Inc. & Susan Kuersten Sheehan, President & Chairman
of the Board
Plaintiff, Appellants,
v
United States of America,
Defendant, Appellee.
This case should be coded as follows:Appellant = United States, Respondents = International Brotherhood of Widget Workers Widgets, Inc., Total number of appellants = 1, Number of appellants that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officials" = 1, Total number of respondents = 3, Number of respondents that fall into the category "private business and its executives" = 2, Number of respondents that fall into the category "groups and associations" = 1.
Your specific task is to determine the total number of respondents in the case. If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the respondent is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order denying the petition of A. J. Schanfarber, Abram M. Frumberg, Edgar J. Schoen, and Samuel Zirn for an allowance for legal services rendered in connection with an action brought by them in the Supreme Court of New York on behalf of one Levy, holder of $5,000 of debentures of Paramount Publix Corporation against that company, Film Production Corporation, its wholly owned subsidiary, certain bank creditors of Paramount, and others. The suit was on behalf of Levy and all other debenture holders similarly situated and is said to have resulted in the relinquishment by the bank creditors of Paramount of a large amount of securities as a result of which they became general instead of secured creditors. The allowance asked was $75,000.
The Levy suit was brought prior to the date of the equity receivership of Paramount, its adjudication in bankruptcy, and the institution of the present proceeding for a reorganization under section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act (11. U.S.C.A. § 207). It sought to set aside an alleged preferential agreement between Paramount and its bank creditors made at a time when it was said to have- been insolvent, and on February 3, 1933, the appellants, or some of them, obtained from the state court an injunction restraining the defendants pendente lite from disposing of the pledged assets stated to have amounted to -some $10,000,000. The alleged fraudulent transfer was to the subsidiary Film Production Corporation. Paramount transferred certain films and rentals thereof to that subsidiary, and it in turn gave its notes therefor to Paramount, who turned them over to the banks. The various defendants had the suit of Levy dismissed by the state court on the ground that he was not a judgment creditor and because the trustee under the trust indenture for the bondholders was alone vested with the right to attack the transfer on their behalf.
The petitioners base their claim to an allowance upon the sole ground that their injunction, though improvidently issued, was a step in preventing the dissipation of the transferred assets until the trustees for Paramount settled a suit which they later brought to set aside the transfer to Film Production Corporation. They clearly have established no right to an allowance. Their suit failed and the injunction was improvident. Not only had the court, as was finally decided, no right to entertain it, but it was needless because it was not shown that the banks were not fully responsible for any claim the debenture holders might have against them. Moreover, they had no lien on the property transferred and could only reach it by reducing their notes to judgment and issuing an execution. Consequently they never were in the position of transferees or preferred creditors. In our opinion the Levy suit was based on no tenable theory and the application for an allowance was properly denied.
Order affirmed.

Question: What is the total number of respondents in the case? Answer with a number.
Answer:

Answer: 1