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:
PORTER v. GRANITE STATE PACKING CO. et al.
No. 4143.
Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
June 5, 1946.
Albert M. Dreyer, of Washington, D. C. (George Moncharsh, Deputy Adm’r of Enforcement, Milton Klein, Director, Litigation Division, and David London, Chief, Appellate Branch, all of Washington, D. C., and William B. Sleigh, Jr., Regional Litigation Atty., of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellant.
Joseph Kruger, of Boston, Mass. (Harold Widett and Widett & Kruger, all of Boston, Mass., and John P. Carleton, of Manchester, N. H., on the brief), for ap-pellees.
Before DOBIE, MAHONEY and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
These are consolidated cases coming before us on appeal from an order of the district court denying the application by the Price Administrator for an injunction restraining defendants from violating § 4(a) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, §§ 901 et seq., 904 (a).
The Granite State Packing Company is the owner and operator of a slaughtering establishment in Manchester, New Hampshire. Alex Shapiro is the president and treasurer of the Packing Company and is also a director of that company and its majority shareholder. Mitchell Muskat is a director of the corporation, its office manager and one of its shareholders. The corporation and the two individuals above named are the defendants in these actions.
Pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Price Control Act, the Administrator promulgated certain regulations fixing maximum prices for the purchase of cattle.
In March, 1945, the Packing Company paid a total of $6,979.43 in excess of the price permitted by the Administrator’s regulations. In April, 1945, overpayments amounted to $4,771.48 and in May, 1945, overpayments totalled $6,816.69. The defendants did not deny these overpayments but contended that the violations were unintentional and attributable only to the difficulties inherent in the application of the regulations. They asserted that they had made a diligent effort to comply with the statute and regulations and acted in complete good faith.
The district court [62 F.Supp. 585, 587], found that the defendants made some effort to comply with the regulations but said that it was “not impressed with their claim that good faith was exercised and that sufficient and proper precautions were taken. These violations were of a substantial character” and occurred in consecutive months. The court added that: “Their failure to comply with the regulation was not wholly involuntary.” But the court refused to grant an injunction on the ground that the cessation of hostilities after the actions were instituted had caused the requirements of the government in respect to its demand for meat to be drastically revised. It did, however, order that the cases be retained on its docket “with the right of the administration on reasonable notice, and a showing that violations of the Act have been resumed, to again apply * * * for injunctive relief.” The court said that had it not been for the cessation of hostilities and the consequential drop in government demand for meat “a different conclusion than the one herein reached would have probably been indicated.”
It is clear that the granting of relief under the Price Control Act, as in all suits in equity, rests in the sound discretion of the court. The Hecht Company v. Bowles, 321 U.S. 321, 64 S.Ct. 587, 88 L.Ed. 754. But a court cannot deny injunctive relief because of the occurrence of an event which is not pertinent to the case at bar. The fact that hostilities had ceased is not a relevant consideration in the instant case. That event did not lessen the necessity for price control. But more significant, Congress has not seen fit to abolish price control. We cannot vitiate an Act of Congress on the theory that that Act is no longer necessary. Only Congress can repeal the Emergency Price Control Act. Until Congress sees fit to do so, we must enforce that Act as vigorously as we enforce any other legislative enactment.
The district court in denying the injunction placed great emphasis on the fact that hostilities had ceased. It should redetermine the question of the relief to be granted without consideration of that fact, and set forth in clear terms the basis for its conclusion.
The judgments of the District Court are vacated and the case is remanded to that court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

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