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:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Frank I. RALEY, Appellee.
No. 7226.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
March 21, 1963.
L. K. Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty. (John M. Imel, U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellant.
Don Hampton, Pawhuska, Okl. (John W. Tillman and Fred A. Tillman, Pawhuska, Okl., on the brief), for appellee.
Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and SETH, Circuit J udges.
PER CURIAM.
Appellee-defendant Raley was charged in a 4-count indictment with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 arising out of alleged false statements made in matters “within the jurisdiction of the Osage Indian Agency, an agency of the United States.” The trial court sustained a motion to dismiss the indictment without stating the reasons for such dismissal. The United States filed a notice of appeal to this court. About a month later the trial court filed another judgment in which it said that the motion to dismiss was sustained because the statements were not made in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Indian Agency and that the decision on the dismissal was not related to any construction of § 1001. The second judgment was without effect because, with exceptions not pertinent, here, the filing of a timely and sufficient notice of appeal transfers jurisdiction to the court of appeals and divests the district court of authority to proceed further in the case.
Appeals by the United States in criminal cases are governed by 18 U.S.C. § 3731. An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States from the dismissal of an indictment when the decision “is based upon the invalidity or construction of the statute upon which the indictment * * * is founded.” An appeal may be taken to a court of appeals except in cases where a direct appeal to the Supreme Court is provided. When an appeal is taken to a court of appeals and it is of the opinion that the appeal should have been taken to the Supreme Court, it shall certify the cause to that court.
The charge of a violation of § 1001 depends on the jurisdiction of the Indian Agency over the matters in connection with which the statements were made. According to the arguments of the parties this is determined by the application and construction of the statutes under which the Indian Agency operates. From the record before us we cannot determine whether the dismissal was based on the invalidity or construction of the Indian Agency statutes or not and, hence, we do not know if the court of appeals has jurisdiction or if the case should be certified to the Supreme Court.
The judgment is reversed and the case remanded with directions that the trial court state the basis for its decision.
. Willoughby v. Sinclair Oil & Gas Co., 10 Cir., 188 F.2d 902, 904; Walleck v. Hudspeth, 10 Cir., 128 F.2d 343, 344; 7 Moore’s Federal Practice § 73.13, pp. 3158-3159.
. 37 Stat. 86; 41 Stat. 1249; and 43 Stat 1008.

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