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 "fiduciaries". 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.

Opinion:
UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ross V. RANDOLPH, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Menard Branch, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 13368.
United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.
Jan. 9, 1962.
H. Blair White, Chicago, 111., for appellant.
William C. Wines, Asst. Atty. Gen., William G. Clark, Atty. Gen., Raymond S. Sarnow, A. Zola Groves, Aubrey Kaplan, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel, for appellee.
Before SCHNACKENBERG, CASTLE and KILEY, Circuit Judges.
SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.
James Wright, relator, has appealed from an order of the district court denying relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
On December 30, 1952, in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, relator, then represented by his attorney, Norman R. Silverman, entered a plea of guilty to charges of robbery alleged in two indictments. He was convicted on his plea, and the court held a hearing as to matters of aggravation and mitigation, for the purpose of determining a sentence, pursuant to § 732, Ch. 38, Ill. Rev.Stat. At the end of this hearing, the court sentenced relator to the Illinois penitentiary, and it is release from this incarceration that he seeks by his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He charges in his petition that, during the aforesaid hearing, there were conversations between the prosecutor and the presiding judge, held out of the hearing of relator and his counsel. He does not state in his petition the subject matter of those conversations and, on oral argument, his counsel in this court expressed no knowledge thereof.
Relator made an abortive attempt to secure relief by writ of error from the Illinois Supreme Court, which failed when the court stated, inter alia:
“Petitioner claims that certain conversations between the trial judge and the State’s Attorney were omitted from the bill of exceptions. The bill of exceptions filed herein is certified to be correct by the court reporter and by the Chief Justice of the criminal court of Cook County and petitioner’s bare assertion to the contrary is insufficient to establish that the bill of exceptions is incomplete.”
The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari, 362 U.S. 943, 80 S.Ct. 808, 4 L.Ed.2d 771.
While relator did invoke Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois, 351 U.S. 12, 76 S.Ct. 585, 100 L.Ed. 891, it is -apparent that the only effort he has made to obtain relief from the Illinois courts was by writ of error from the Supreme Court of Illinois. He takes this position despite the established facts that, under Illinois law, that avenue is not open nor could relief be granted in a habeas corpus proceeding in that state. In People ex rel. Hubbard v. Anthony, 129 Ill. 218, 224, 21 N.E. 780, 781, the court said:
“ * * * It is true there is much evidence in this record, by way of affidavits filed with and in support of the petition, strongly tending to show that the exceptions were in fact entered as alleged by relator; but, if it be conceded that these affidavits may be considered, it is not competent for the appellate court or for this court to try the question of fact, and determine for the trial judge matters that are left to his legal discretion and judgment. * * -X- ”
In People ex rel. Simus v. Donoghue, 377 Ill. 122, at 125, 35 N.E.2d 371, 372, the same court said:
“It is not competent for this court to try the question of fact and determine for the trial judge matters that are left to his legal discretion and judgment. The presumption is that the trial judge, acting under the solemnity of his oath, will honestly and faithfully perform the duties of his office. And where, as here, after having heard and considered the matter, he asserts that the report of proceedings which he has signed and certified, is a full and fair report of the proceedings had and taken in the trial, this court is powerless to compel him to sign and seal another report of proceedings containing a different state of facts, and to which the trial judge, in the exercise of his judicial functions, was unable to assent. People ex rel. Hubbard v. Anthony, 129 Ill. 218, 21 N.E. 780.”
It was for the state of Illinois, not for relator, to designate the method of relief available in the courts of Illinois, to a person convicted under the circumstances asserted by relator. It cannot be said that, by unsuccessfully prosecuting a proceeding not authorized by the state, relator exhausted his remedies under Illinois law, particularly inasmuch as there was available to relator a ready Illinois remedy under which his constitutional contentions could have been asserted and decided. That is Illinois’ Post-Conviction Hearing Act, §§ 826-832, Ch. 38, R.S.Ill. That act being available and not resorted to by relator, we are required to hold that he did not exhaust his state remedies before filing his petition in the district court. Lilyroth United States ex rel. v. Ragen, Warden, 7 Cir., 222 F.2d 654.
Faced with this inescapable conclusion, relator in his reply brief takes the position that the Post-Conviction Hearing Act is not available because the failure of the Illinois court to supply him with what he calls a complete bill of exceptions or transcript after his conviction makes that act not applicable. Actually the alleged wrong, which he uses as a basis for charging a violation of his federal constitutional rights, was the alleged failure of the judge of the Criminal Court of Cook County to incorporate into the bill of exceptions a supposed, but wholly undefined, conversation between the judge and the prosecutor, involving, so relator surmises, something having to do with him. The Post-Conviction Hearing Act in § 1 clearly shows its purpose to be the granting of broad relief to any person in the penitentiary who asserts that in the proceedings which resulted in his conviction there was a substantial denial of his constitutional rights. It is startling to find counsel for a prisoner arguing for a narrow construction of the act, especially in view of its broad remedial purpose.
We, therefore, conclude that, inasmuch as relator did not exhaust his remedies under Illinois law, the district court did not err in dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The order of the district court will be affirmed.
We have been much impressed with the diligent effort made by Mr. H. Blair White of the bar of this court, who was appointed to represent relator, an indigent person. We thank Mr. White for his services.
Order affirmed.

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

Choices:

Answer: 0