Task: songer_appnatpr

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.
Note that if an individual is listed by name, but their appearance in the case is as a government official, then they should be counted as a government rather than as a private person. For example, in the case "Billy Jones & Alfredo Ruiz v Joe Smith" where Smith is a state prisoner who brought a civil rights suit against two of the wardens in the prison (Jones & Ruiz), the following values should be coded: number of appellants that fall into the category "natural persons" =0 and number that fall into the category "state governments, their agencies, and officials" =2. A similar logic should be applied to businesses and associations. Officers of a company or association whose role in the case is as a representative of their company or association should be coded as being a business or association rather than as a natural person. However, employees of a business or a government who are suing their employer should be coded as natural persons. Likewise, employees who are charged with criminal conduct for action that was contrary to the company policies should be considered natural persons.
If the title of a case listed a corporation by name and then listed the names of two individuals that the opinion indicated were top officers of the same corporation as the appellants, then the number of appellants should be coded as three and all three were coded as a business (with the identical detailed code). Similar logic should be applied when government officials or officers of an association were listed by name.
Your specific task is to determine the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons". If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the appellant is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
The executors of Mary L. Graupner, holders of a permit to manufacture cereal beverages of lawful alcoholic content, were cited by the Prohibition Administrator for the Western District of Pennsylvania to appear before a hearer and show cause why the permit should not be revoked. The hearer found that the per-mittees had violated the terms of the permit and had not in good faith conformed to the provisions of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA) and accordingly recommended that the permit be revoked. The Prohibition Administrator approved the findings and revoked the permit. Later he awarded a review of his decision by a reviewer who, after holding that the record justified the hearer’s findings of fact, made a like recommendation. The Prohibition Administrator, acting upon the recommendation of both hearer and reviewer, then definitely revoked the permit. Thereupon the permittees by a bill in equity filed in the District Court under Section 6 of title 2 of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA § 16) sought a review of the Administrator’s decision.
On this review the learned trial court [(D. C.) 23 F. (2d) 947] made its own findings of fact which, opposed to those of the hearer and reviewer, were that the permit-tees had at all times acted in good faith; that their alleged offending conduct was an innocent mistake; and, concluding that the revocation of the permit was under the circumstances too severe a punishment, Hoell v. Mellon (D. C.) 4 F.(2d) 859, 862, and McGill v. Mellon (D. C.) 5 F.(2d) 262, 265, held that the decision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue (acting through the Prohibition Administrator) should be reversed and the permit restored. The Commissioner took this appeal. As all this occurred after the decision in Ma-King Products Co. v. Blair, 271 U. S. 479, 46 S. Ct. 544, 70 L. Ed. 1046, yet before the decision by this court in Yudelson v. Andrews, 25 F.(2d) 80, it is evident that the learned trial court, being for the moment unmindful of the character and limit of its jurisdiction in such cases as defined in the Ma-King decision. and being without whatever aid may be had from our analysis of that decision in the Yudelson Case, reviewed the case as though it were on trial de novo, found facts for itself, and accordingly rendered its decision on the merits of the controversy, that is, on a question whether or not the permit should be revoked —a purely administrative matter — when, as it is now definitely determined, its sole function was' to find, under the rule in analogous cases, Silberschein v. United States, 266 U. S. 221, 225, 45 S. Ct. 69, 69 L. Ed. 256, whether upon the facts and law the decision of the Commissioner was based upon error of law, or was wholly unsupported by the evidence or clearly arbitrary or capricious. The Ma-King Case. As no question of law was raised the sole question before the trial court was not whether the permit should be revoked but whether there was any evidence that sustained the Commissioner’s exercise of discretion' in revoking it.
The evidence, which as in most cases of this kind is conflicting, tends to show good faith or bad faith of the permittees according as one part or another part is believed. That on which the Commissioner based his decision is briefly as follows:
Two prohibition agents approached the brewery in question and seeing one of the permittees standing outside asked for admittance to the racking room. Its two doors being locked, the permittee promised to obtain the key .from the brewmaster and let them in. Not being satisfied, the agents tried to enter the room through one door. Failing there, they went to the other door, whose upper part was glass. Not being admitted, they broke the glass. Seeing a number of workmen in the room they demanded admittance. One of them unlocked the door. On entering, the agents found that the racker had recently been operated and had just been flushed with water from a hose and that a great deal of beer foam was lying on the floor. In addition they found in the washroom adjoining the racking room twenty-four one-half barrels of beer which, then tested and later analyzed, showed an alcoholic content well in excess of one-half of 1 per cent. A covered truek was backed up against the nearby loading platform in the brewery yard. The permittees, to explain their conceded violation of the regulations of the Treasury Department against placing intoxicating malt liquor before dealcoholization in kegs or other portable containers (Section 703 of Regulation 60), testified that the beer in the kegs, though of high alcoholic content, was sour and had, by their order, been racked off to be drunk by the workmen, intending thereby to discourage the workmen’s practice of drinking high test beer from the vats.
As the inferences arising from this evidence might validly have influenced the Commissioner’s discretion in revoking the permit, we cannot say that his decision was wholly unsupported by evidence or was arbitrary or capricious. The Ma-King Case.
As the order of the District Court will be reversed, the Commissioner’s revocation of the permit must stand.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons"? Answer with a number.
Answer:

Answer: 0