Task: songer_r_fed

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 respondents in the case that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officials". 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.

PER CURIAM.
' The Board in its order found the Employer, the operator of a TV station, guilty of § 8(a) (1) interference in the exercise of rights of the employees. It also found that the employees Marlin, Filer and Lipari were discharged, and Weand demoted on August 12, 1958, for union activity contrary to § 8(a) (3). Considering that the conclusions were reached on controverted evidence warranting the Board making a choice between conflicting inferences, the Employer does not directly attack these conclusions. The Employer does object to that part of the order referred to as the remedy. The Board’s decision, contrary to that of the Examiner, recognizes that the Employer may have substantially altered its operations subsequent to the date of this discriminatory discharge-demotion occurrence, “so that it no longer requires the same number of employees in its news department as it did prior to the discharges * * That, and the absence of any indication thus far that replacements were hired, led the Board to state: “It is therefore possible that some of these employees might have been affected in such a curtailment of operations, absent the Respondent’s unfair labor practices.” Consequently, the Board acknowledges that reinstatment and consequent reimbursement of back pay of the discriminatees cannot be forced on the Employer if the job of these persons has been abolished by reduction in forces.
But to effectuate this the Board does it in a roundabout way. If first imposed the order requiring reinstatement with an award of back pay. But it provided further in effect that the Employer was free to establish that, by virtue of these economic nondiscriminatory reasons, the job of such discriminates was, or has become, no longer available. In such event the reinstatement (and back pay) would cease as of such moment.
We think this is artificial. It is fraught with much uncertainty which will provoke more controversy, not less. What, and all, these employees are entitled to is the right each would have enjoyed under employment policies and practices customarily followed by this Employer had they not been discriminatorily discharged or demoted. Neither the status as a victim of discrimination nor union membership affords any added rights of any kind. The discriminatee is neither better, nor worse, off. If under the Employer’s established employment practices, a discriminatee, at the time of the layoff, had a right to displace another person in the same job, or in some other job, or had a right to priority in filling vacancies or new positions occurring subsequently in such job or some other jobs or had any other such priorities, then the Employer must offer reinstatement (and back wages) in such jobs for such times as such employment practices would accord. The obverse is equally plain. Under the Act, discrimination by the Employer does not compel it to make work for these persons. Such discrimination does not require the Employer to discharge or lay off others to provide jobs for these discriminatees. Nor does it compel the Employer to give a priority right in rehiring as old jobs become vacant or new positions are created. What the Act does in this situation is twofold: first, it prohibits altogether anti-union discrimination; second, it requires the Employer to accord to these persons whatever rights, privileges and priorities — but no more— they would have had under the nondiscriminatory employment customs, practices and policies followed and applied by this particular Employer in the exercise of its management prerogatives. N. L. R. B. v. American Steel Building Co., 5 Cir., 1960, 278 F.2d 480.
It is obvious from the Board’s decision and what we have briefly stated that further proceedings before the Board are essential. It could be most unfair to leave some or all of these contingent uncertainties to coercive compliance proceedings where mistaken action runs the risk of contempt. The further proceedings will determine whether these ■ economic management changes have been made, and if so, with respect to each discriminatee the right, if any, to reinstatement, back wages and related problems in accordance with the principles here announced. Consequently, while thus modified, we approve the order and in effect enforce it, the matter is remanded for further proceedings.
Modified and remanded.

Question: What is the total number of respondents in the case that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officialss"? Answer with a number.
Answer:

Answer: 0