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 "the federal government, its agencies, and officials". 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:
WOODS v. TATE.
No. 12390.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
Dec. 23, 1948.
William A. Moran, Sp. Lit. Atty. OHE, Ed Dupree, Gen. Counsel OHE, Hugo V. Prucha, Asst. Gen. Counsel OHE, and Isadore A. Honig, Sp. Lit. Atty. OHE, all of Washington, D. C., and H. C. Happ, Regn’l. Atty. OHE and J. Edwin Fleming, Lit. Atty. OHE, 'both of Dallas, Tex., for appellant.
Mary Tate, pro se.
Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.
McCORD, Circuit Judge.
This action is brought for injunctive relief, restitution and damages pursuant to Section 205(a) and (e) of the Emergency Price Control Act, as amended, for an alleged violation of the Rent Regulations for Housing, Title 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 925(a) and (e) ; 10 F.R. 3436.
The complaint alleged that defendant, Mary Tate, was the owner of certain housing accommodations at Houston, Texas, within the Houston Defense-Rental Area, and that such accommodations were sub-' ject to the Rent Regulations for Housing; that defendant had violated and was continuing to violate the Act and Regulations by demanding and receiving rentals in excess of the maximum rent established by the Area Rent Director for the housing accommodations in question; that defendant should be restrained from further violations and ordered to remit to the tenant involved the amount of her overcharge; that defendant further be required to pay statutory damages to the United States in double the amount of her overcharge; or, in the event restitution to the tenant not be ordered, that defendant be required to pay treble damages to the United States for her violation.
Although defendant was duly served with summons, she filed no answer, and entered no appearance in the case. Plaintiff thereupon filed a motion for default judgment, and later, a request for admission of the material facts on which the action was based, under Rule 36, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Title 28 U.S.C.A. The defendant again failed to reply. After hearing all the evidence offered by plaintiff, the trial court found that defendant had rented the housing accommodations in question during the period alleged for $50.00 per month, and that the rent was paid to her by the tenant at that rate. This amount was admittedly $20.00 per month in excess of the maximum monthly rent on the accommodations in question, claimed to be established by an order of the Area Rent Director concerning the property. The court was of opinion, however, that there was "no dependable evidence as to the maximum rent of this property;” that the order establishing the maximum rent “purports to be signed by J. C. Watts, Acting Rent Director, but there is no proof of his signature nor that the document is authentic;” that the order was addressed to one Jack Ragusa, and that “Just what, if anything, Ragusa had to do with the property does not satisfactorily appear;” that the order “may or may not relate to the property in question;” and that the court was “compelled to find that Plaintiff has not established the maximum rent on the property during the period covered by the suit”. The trial court accordingly entered judgment in favor of defendant, and this appeal resulted.
We are of opinion the trial court erred in holding that plaintiff had not established the maximum rent allowable on the accommodations owned by defendant, and in failing to accept the order establishing the maximum rent as valid and binding. Wynne v. United States, 217 U.S. 234, 237, 30 S.Ct. 447, 54 L.Ed. 748; Hagen v. Porter, 9 Cir., 156 F.2d 362, 365; Banco de Espana v. Federal Reserve Bank, 2 Cir., 114 F.2d 438, 446; Rule 44, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A.; 28 U.S. C.A. § 695e [now § 1741],
It was shown that the order in question pertained solely to the housing accommodations belonging to defendant. It expressly stated that it was to remain in effect until changed by the Office of Price Administration. The fact that it was addressed to a prior owner of the property did not entitle defendant to ignore the issuance and existence of this order, or service in the instant proceeding. The rent regulations contemplate that a subsequent owner will be bound by a rent increase or reduction order issued to a previous owner of the same premises. 10 F.R. 3436. Moreover, when defendant came into ownership of this property, if she lacked knowledge as to the existence of any orders affecting the maximum rent allowable on the premises, it was incumbent upon her to consult with the proper OPA authorities for such information, in order that rent exacted from her tenant would not be at variance with the regulations. Not having done so, for aught the record reveals, she was legally chargeable with knowledge of the order establishing her maximum rent. We conclude this order was presumably valid and genuine, particularly in the absence of any proof or testimony to the contrary. United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc., 272 U.S. 1, 47 S.Ct. 1, 71 L.Ed. 131; Bowles v. Glick Bros. Lumber Co., 9 Cir., 146 F.2d 566, 571; Mississippi Road Supply Co. v. Walling, 5 Cir., 136 F.2d 391, 394.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with direction to enter an appropriate order in favor of the Housing Expediter, under Section 205(a) and (e) of the Act, damages to be awarded within the discretion of the court.
Reversed and remanded with direction.

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

Choices:

Answer: 1