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.

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.
A motion has been interposed by the defendant in error to strike the bill of exceptions from the record and files, on the ground that it was not settled or certified within the term, or within the time allowed by law. Inasmuch as the assignments of error are all predicated upon the ruling of the court granting an involuntary nonsuit, if this motion is granted, there is no question before us for review.
The facts in relation to the settlement and certification of the bill of exceptions are as follows: The case was tried .during the April term, 1926, of the court below, which expired on the first Monday of the ensuing September. The final judgment was entered May 17; the motion for a new trial was denied August 23; the proposed bill of exceptions was served on opposing counsel and lodged with the clerk of the court on August 30, but was not presented for allowance by the court, and no notice of such presentation was given until after the expiration of the term, when on October 1, 1926, the bill was settled and certified by the court, over the objection and protest of the defendant in error.
The plaintiff in error has cited certain cases holding that the court may certify a bill of exceptions in disregard of its own rules, such as Southern Pac. Co. v. Johnson (C. C. A.) 69 F. 559; City of Seattle v. Board of Home Missions (C. C. A.) 138 F. 307; Russo-Chinese Bank v. National Bank of Commerce (C. C. A.) 187 F. 80. But, conceding this, the rule is well settled that it may not do so in the face of a statute or rule of law limiting its. authority in that regard. Thus in O’Connell v. United States, 253 U. S. 142, 40 S. Ct. 444, 64 L. Ed. 827, the Supreme Court held that the power of the trial court over' the cause expired with the expiration of the term, as extended by order of court, and that any proceedings concem- , ing the settlement of a bill of exceptions thereafter had were coram non judice and void. In the earlier case of Michigan Insurance Bank v. Eldred, 143 U. S. 293, 12 S. Ct. 450, 36 L. Ed. 162, the same court said:
“By the uniform course of decision, no exceptions to rulings at a trial can be considered by this court, unless they were taken at the trial, and were also embodied in a formal bill of exceptions presented to the judge at the same term, or within a further time allowed by order entered at that term, or by standing rule of court, or by consent of parties; and, save under very extraordinary circumstances, they must be allowed by the judge and filed with the clerk during the same term.” '
The later decisions do not seem to recognizé even the limited exception there mentioned. Thus in Exporters v. Butterworth-Judson Co., 258 U. S. 365, 42 S. Ct. 331, 66 L. Ed. 663, the court said:
“We think the better rule and the one supported by former opinions of this court requires that bills of exceptions shall be signed before the trial court loses jurisdiction of the cause by expiration of the term or such time thereafter as may have been duly prescribed.”
But, whichever rule we adopt, the bill of exceptions in this case was not certified in time because the delay in obtaining the certification was not caused by very extraordinary circumstances. On the contrary, the circumstances were but usual and ordinary. The time for proposing a bill of exceptions commenced to run with the entry of final judgment on May 17, 3% months before the expiration of the term, without any extension thereof, and no excuse for the delay is offered or given. The ruling of the Supreme Court in such matters is, of course, controlling upon this court. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Citizens’ Nat. Bank (C. C. A.) 8 F.(2d) 216.
The court below was therefore without jurisdiction to certify the bill of exceptions after the expiration of the term, and for that reason the bill of exceptions must be disregarded and the judgment affirmed.
It is so ordered,

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

Answer: 1