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.

Opinion:
In re SORENSON. SORENSON v. COLLINS.
Nos. 5398, 5400.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
May 3, 1935.
William M. Johnson', Tom D. IVtcKeown, and Albert Langeluttig, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
Meyer Fink and Max Daniels, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
Before EVANS, SPARKS, and ALSCHULER, Circuit Judges.
ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is- from an order dissolving an injunction granted under appellant’s petition for composition or extension of payment of his debts, which was filed under section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended (11 USCA § 202).
It appears that appellant owned real estate in Chicago, Ill., upon which there was a mortgage conveying the property to appellee, as trustee, to secure the mortgage debt. The trustee had brought a suit in the circuit court of Cook county, Ill., against appellant for foreclosure of the mortgage, in which suit, on May 25, 1934, the court duly entered a decree, in the usual form, for foreclosure of the mortgage. Sale under the decree was duly advertised by the master in chancery of the court for November 9,1934. On October 19,1934, appellant filed in the District Court his petition, under section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act, alleging his inability to meet his debts as they mature, and his desire to effect a composition or an extension of time to pay his debts, and presenting with his petition verified schedule of his property. On November 1, 1934, he presented to the District Court a petition setting forth his ownership of the mortgaged premises and the pendency of said suit by appellee for foreclosure of the mortgage thereon, and the entry of decree oí foreclosure as stated, and asking the court to issue an injunction restraining appellee and the master in chancery of the state court from further proceeding with said foreclosure against appellant and the said mortgaged property; whereupon said District Court, on said November 1, ordered and decreed that an injunction issue accordingly, and that appellee and the master in chancery be restrained, until the further order of the District Court, from proceeding with sale of the property under the decree of foreclosure.
On November 2, 1934, appellee filed his petition in the District Court, wherein he alleged that by reason of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended (11 USCA), and the decree-of foreclosure entered in the circuit court-of Cook county, the District Court was-without jurisdiction concerning the said mortgaged property, and asked the court to dissolve, as to said property, its said order for injunction; whereupon, on November 9, 1934, the District Court entered its order or decree dissolving its said order of injunction, from which dissolving order or decree the appeal herein is prosecuted.
The amendment of June 7, 1934, to subdivision (m) of section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act provides:
"The filing of a debtor's petition or answer seeking relief under this section shall subject the debtor and his property, wherever located, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the court in which the order approving the petition or answer as provided in subdivision (a) is filed, and this shall include property of the debtor in the possession of a trustee under a trust deed or a mortgage, or a receiver, custodian or other officer of any court in a pending cause, irrespective of the date of appointment of such receiver or other officer, or the date of the institution of such proceedings: Provided, That it shall not affect any proceeding in any court in which a final decree has been entered." 48 Stat. 923, 11 USCA § 202 (m).
The sole question here is whether, under the proviso of the amendment, the bankruptcy court had power to enjoin further proceedings in the foreclosure proceeding after decree of foreclosure had been entered; in other words, whether such a decree of foreclosure is "a final decree" within the purview of the proviso.
Prior to the amendment of June 7, 1934, this court decided that section 74 did not have application where more than four months had elapsed between the appointment of a receiver for the property and the filing of the petition in bankruptcy under section 74. In re Hillmert (C. C. A.) 71 F.(2d) 411; In re Landquist (C. C. A.) 70 F.(2d) 929.
We may assume that in its plenary power over bankruptcy Congress might lawfully prescribe the stage of a foreclosure proceeding brought against property of the debtor before which that proceeding might be arrested and the property taken over and administered by the bankruptcy court, or after which the bankruptcy court might not interfere with the foreclosure proceeding. Congress might have prescribed the filing of the foreclosure suit as the stage after which a petition under section 74 could not be effective to stay or otherwise affect the foreclosure proceeding. it might have fixed any other stage of the proceeding beyond which the bankruptcy court might not interfere with the foreclosure. By the proviso of the amendment of June 7, 1934, it did fix as such stage the entry of "a final decree" therein.
If the usual and well-understood decree of foreclosure is "a final decree" in the proceeding wherein it is entered, the bankruptcy court would have had no right after entry of such a decree to interfere with the further progress of the foreclosure proceeding in the court wherein it was pending. The amendment did not set up any standard by which to test and determine what is "a final decree," and so the term must be held to have been employed in its usual, ordinary, and well-understood meaning. Old Colony R. Co. v. Commissioner, 284 U. S. 552, 52 S. Ct. 211, 76 L. Ed. 484; Moore v. United States, 249 U. S. 487, 39 S. Ct. 322, 63 L. Ed. 721; Danciger v. Cooley, 248 U. S. 319, 39 S. Ct. 119, 63 L. Ed. 266; United States v. First Nat. Bank, 234 U. S. 245, 34 S. Ct. 846, 58 L. Ed. 1298; Southern Ry. Co. v. United States, 222 U. S. 20, 32 S. Ct. 2, 56 L. Ed. 72; Kepner v. United States, 195 U. S. 100, 24 S. Ct. 797, 49 L. Ed. 114, 1 Ann. Cas. 655.
While it is suggested for appellant thai the tern~ "a final decree" as employed ii~ the amendment may imply the last act b~' the court or its officers which n~ay or must occur to complete the mortgagor's divestiture of all right or interest in the mortgaged property, yet, since it was not necessary heri~ to go to that extent, it is contended that the words of the amendment have reference to the master's sale under the decree and the approval of the sale by the court as the stage intended by the amendment after which the foreclosure may not be halted by the bankruptcy court.
In a foreclosure proceeding a decree which definitely fixes and adjudicates, as between the parties to the litigation, all issues relating to their mutual rights and obligatiotis is, to all intents and purposes, a final decree. The usual decree of foreclosure does this. Those matters incident to the execution of the decree-the sale, report of sale, deficiency decree, redemption, issuance and recording of deed, and the like-are tç the decree of foreclosure what at law the execution, sale, redemption, and the like arc to the final judgment to which they are incidental. A decree or judgment is none the less final because of the things thereafter to be done to give it effect.
In Whiting v. Bank of the United States, 13 Pet. 6, 15, 10 L. Ed. 33, in considering whether or not a bill of review could be maintained to set aside the sale of certain property under a decree of foreclosure,.iX was said:
"But is the objection itself, in principle, well founded? That depends upon this-'- whether the decree of foreclosure and sale is to be considered as the final decree, in the sense of a court of equity, and the proceedings on that decree, a mere mode of enforcing the rights of the creditor, and for the benefit of the debtor; or whether the decree is to be deemed final only after the return and confirmation of the sale by a decretal order of the court. We are of opinion, that the former is the true view of the matter. The original decree of foreclosure and sale was final upon the merits of the controversy. * * * Indeed, the ulterior proceedings are but a mode of executing the original decree, like the award of an execution at law.”
In Felker v. Southern Trust Co. (C. C. A.) 264 F. 798, 801, the court said:
“It has been the established law in the federal courts too long for debate or discussion now that a decree which orders a judicial sale of specific property under which the title may pass beyond the control of the court is a final decree, although questions of amounts owing to some of the parties and of accountings preparatory to the application of the proceeds of the sale are reserved for subsequent decision.”
In Kirby v. Runals, 140 Ill. 289, 295, 29 N. E. 697, 698, in holding that a decree of foreclosure is a final decree, the court said:
“The decree was, under our understanding of the law, a final decree. It was one from which either the complainant in the bill or the owners of the equity of redemption could have prosecuted an appeal, and one under which, after the expiration of the time limited therein, the master in chancery could have made a sale of the premises. The matters in litigation in the suit, as between Runals, the complainant therein, and the owners of the equity of redemption, were the existence and maturity of the dfebt, the amount due, the existence of the mortgage securing the debt, the right to foreclose the same, and the right of the complainant to have a decree for the sale of the mortgaged premises to pay the debt, interest and costs. These litigations were all determined by the court and settled by the decree. The master was ordered to make sale of the real estate, and bring the moneys arising from such sale into court. The only thing which remained to be done in which'the mortgagors, or those succeeding to their rights, had any interest or concern, was the mere enforcement or carrying into execution of the decree.” "
See, also, Grant v. Phœnix Ins. Co., 106 U. S. 429, 1 S. Ct. 414, 27 L. Ed. 237, and Myers v. Manny, 63 Ill. 211.
Had Congress intended that the master’s sale of the property, or the approval of report of sale, or the expiration of mortgagor’s right of redemption, or the issuance of deed, or the ouster of mortgagor from the premises should mark the time or event after which bankruptcy proceedings may not affect or interfere with the foreclosure, it would doubtless have so stated. It did fix entry of “a final decree” as such stage, and the court is not at liberty to select some other stage of the proceedings as marking the time or happening in the foreclosure after which the bankruptcy court may not disturb or suspend the foreclosure proceeding.
Concluding as we do that under section 74 (m) the decree of foreclosure is “a final decree” applicable to such proceedings, after the entry of which the bankruptcy court was without right to restrain or otherwise interfere with them, we are of opinion that the bankruptcy court properly dismissed appellant’s petition, and the order or decree appealed from is affirmed.

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

Choices:

Answer: 1