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:
Leonard VAN DOMELEN and Amy Van Domelen, Appellants, v. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a corporation, Appellee.
No. 21447.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
July 27, 1967.
Gerald H. Robinson, Portland, Or., for appellants; Green, Richardson, Griswold & Murphy, Portland, Or., of counsel.
W. C. Schwenn, Hillsboro, Or., Malcolm J. Montague, Williams, Montague, Stark & Thorpe, Portland, Or., for appellee.
Before HAMLEY and MERRILL, Circuit Judges, and MATHES, District Judge.
MATHES, District Judge:
Leonard and Amy Van Domelen appeal from a judgment of the District Court entered upon a jury verdict finding them liable upon their joint written guaranty in favor of appellee.
The guaranty in question, dated January 7, 1964, was executed in Oregon in favor of the appellee, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and by its terms guarantees payment of the account of Sharon Manufacturing Company with Westinghouse. Federal jurisdiction is grounded upon diversity of citizenship, so the substantive law of Oregon governs. [Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188 (1938).]
Appellants’ first contention is that this guaranty failed to satisfy the expression-of-consideration requirement of the Oregon Statute of Frauds, which provides in part that:
“In the following cases the agreement is void unless it, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, is in writing * * *
(2) An agreement to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another.” [Ore.Rev.Stat. § 41.580.]
Although the challenged instrument recites that it was executed “In consideration of your [Westinghouse] extending credit to Sharon Furniture Manufacturing Co., Inc. * * * and for value received”, appellants argue that this is an insufficient expression of the consideration for the guaranty here, since the consideration claimed by Westinghouse to have been given was not extension of credit, but a forbearance of suit against Sharon.
It is to be noted however, that the provisions of the guaranty conclude with the following recital: “Witness our hands and seals the day and year above written.” The abbreviation “L.S.” appears in print following each of the Van Domelen signatures, and signifies presence of a seal in accordance with § 42.-120 of the Oregon Revised Statutes, which was in effect at all times relevant here.
In Johnston v. Wadsworth, 24 Or. 494, 34 P. 13 (1883), the Oregon Supreme Court considered the requirement of “expressing the consideration”, as found in Oregon’s Statute of Frauds [Or.Rev. Stat. § 41.580], and observed that “the agreement being under seal, the seal is itself sufficient to satisfy the statute.” [24 Or. at 502, 34 P. at 15; cf. Title & Trust Co. v. Nelson, 157 Or. 585, 71 P.2d 1081, 114 A.L.R. 1196 (1937).]
Although, as appellants point out, § 41.350(3) of the Oregon Revised Statutes declares that a recital of consideration is excluded from the conclusive presumption of “[t]he truth of the facts recited * * * in a written instrument”, this provision is relevant to a determination of whether or not there was in fact a failure of the expressed consideration, and not to a determination of whether or not the Oregon Statute of Frauds has been satisfied.
The requirements of Oregon's Statute of Frauds being met by execution of the guaranty under seal, parol evidence was properly admitted to explain that the ambiguous phrase “extending credit * * * and for value received”, as employed in the guaranty, referred to forbearance of suit on the part of appellee. [See Or.Rev.Stat. §§ 41.740, 42.-220.]
Appellants next urge that there was insufficient evidence to support the jury’s determination that Westinghouse agreed to forbear suit against Sharon, but so to hold would require us to declare that the jury could not reasonably have believed the testimony of appellee’s credit manager. We are unable to say that the jury’s finding from the evidence in the case was outside the bounds of reasonableness. [See Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein, 363 U.S. 278, 80 S.Ct. 1190, 4 L.Ed.2d 1218 (I960).]
Finally, appellants contend that in all events there was no credible evidence to warrant a jury finding that Westinghouse relied upon the guaranty in forbearing to sue Sharon; and in this connection they also assert that the trial court erroneously limited appellants’ cross-examination of appellee’s principal witness on this issue.
The trial judge instructed the jury that, in order to find in favor of appellee, they must find not only that Westinghouse promised Sharon to forbear suit in return for appellant’s guaranty, but also that Westinghouse relied at least in part upon appellants’ guaranty in actually forbearing suit against Sharon for the agreed period of time. Inasmuch as we find no authority suggesting that the courts of Oregon would follow a different rule from that adhered to in other jurisdictions, we hold that the jury’s verdict in favor of appellee would have been fully supported either by a finding of a promise to forbear, or by a finding of actual forbearance in reliance upon the guaranty. [See Restatement of Contracts § 75 (1932); 1 Corbin on Contracts § 139 (1963); Annot., 78 A. L.R.2d 1414.]
And since there was ample evidence to support the finding of a promise to forbear on the part of Westinghouse, and it is undisputed that Westinghouse actually did forbear during the agreed-upon period of time, the trial court’s error, if any, in limiting appellants’ cross-examination and in tendering the issue of reliance upon the guaranty to the jury, was harmless. [See Fed.R. Civ.P. 61.]
The verdict in favor of appellee on the January 7, 1964 guaranty being sufficient to sustain the judgment appealed from, we need not reach the questions raised as to the correctness of the trial court’s rulings involving an earlier guaranty executed in 1963 by appellant Leonard Van Domelen alone in favor of appellee.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed.
Judge Mathes prepared and signed this opinion, hut died before it could be filed.

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.

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