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.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant. Consider the following categories: "not ascertained", "poor + wards of state" (e.g., patients at state mental hospital; not prisoner unless specific indication that poor), "presumed poor" (e.g., migrant farm worker), "presumed wealthy" (e.g., high status job - like medical doctors, executives of corporations that are national in scope, professional athletes in the NBA or NFL; upper 1/5 of income bracket), "clear indication of wealth in opinion", "other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy" (e.g., public school teachers, federal government employees)." Note that "poor" means below the federal poverty line; e.g., welfare or food stamp recipients. There must be some specific indication in the opinion that you can point to before anyone is classified anything other than "not ascertained". Prisoners filing "pro se" were classified as poor, but litigants in civil cases who proceed pro se were not presumed to be poor. Wealth obtained from the crime at issue in a criminal case was not counted when determining the wealth of the criminal defendant (e.g., drug dealers).

Opinion:
James J. CANAVARI, Petitioner-Appellant, v. G. V. RICHARDSON, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 24314.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Dec. 19, 1969.
James J. Canavari, in pro. per.
Eugene Kramer, Herbert M. Schoenberg, Frederick M. Brosio, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for ap-pellee.
Before BARNES, KOELSCH and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Appellant, a federal prisoner, takes this appeal from the denial of his petition for habeas corpus. He urges that the time he spent “in custody” but on parole must count as time served on his three year sentence.
As explained by the trial judge who heard the petition:
“In essence, petitioner’s argument is that after revocation of parole and return to prison, he was entitled to have the time during which he was on parole credited against [his] sentence because while on parole he was in the constructive custody of the Attorney General.”
Such a legal' position is specifically contrary to congressional enactment. 18 U.S.C. § 4205:
“ * * * and the time the prisoner was on parole shall not diminish the time he was sentenced to serve.”
This court has rejected appellant’s contention in Chandler v. Johnson, 133 F.2d 139, 142 (9th Cir. 1943), and Van Buskirk v. Wilkinson, 216 F.2d 735 (9th Cir. 1954).
These cases not only reject appellant’s contention — they also uphold the constitutionality of the statutory release on parole procedure quoted above. It is only when congressional enactment transcends constitutional limitations, such as the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, enactment of ex post facto laws, and the like, that such statutes can be held unconstitutional.
We affirm what we said in Van Buskirk, supra:
“When appellant was conditionally released, he became subject to all the provisions of law relating to parole, one of which was that if he violated his parole he should again be taken into custody and the time spent on parole should not diminish the time he was originally sentenced to serve.” (p. 738)
Other courts, in an unbroken line of cases, have come to the same conclusion and have rejected appellant’s claim. We know of no cases to the contrary.
Appellant’s reliance on Jones v. Cunningham, 371 U.S. 236, 242-243, 83 S. Ct. 373, 9 L.Ed.2d 285 (1963), is misplaced. It held only that a prisoner on parole was in technical ‘custody’ for the purpose of filing a petition for ha-beas corpus. It did not consider appellant’s claim of unconstitutionality. As was said in O’Callahan v. Attorney General, 1 Cir., 351 F.2d 43 at 44 (1965):
“Petitioner accepted the parole ‘custody’ in the hope that it would discharge the balance of his prison sentence. Had he not violated the conditions it would have done so. The Constitution does not require that he have it both ways.”
Affirmed.
. First Circuit: O’Callahan v. Attorney General, 351 F.2d 43 at 44 (1965), cert. denied, 382 U.S. 1017, 86 S.Ct. 632, 15 L.Ed.2d 531
Fourth Circuit: O’Neal v. Fleming, 201 F.2d 665 (1953)
Hall v. Welch, 185 F.2d 525 (1950)
Fifth Circuit: Clark v. Blackwell, 374 F.2d 952 (1967)
Van Horn v. Maguire, 328 F.2d 585 (1964)
Seventh Circuit: Hodge v. Markley, 339 F.2d 973 (1965)
Dolan v. Swope, 138 F.2d 301 (1943)
Eighth Circuit: Higgerson v. Attorney-General, 369 F.2d 398 (1966), cert. denied, 386 U.S. 1026, 87 S.Ct. 1386, 18 L.Ed.2d 468
Vorhees v. Cox, 140 F.2d 132 (1944) Tenth Circuit: Postelwait v. Willingham, 365 F.2d 759 (1966)
Weathers v. Willingham, 356 F.2d 421 (1966)
Evans v. Hunter, 162 F.2d 800 (1947)
D.C. Circuit: Bates v. Rivers, 116 U.S. App.D.C. 306, 323 F.2d 311 (1963)

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant?

Choices:
not ascertained
poor + wards of state
presumed poor
presumed wealthy
clear indication of wealth in opinion
other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy

Answer: 1