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:
John J. KELLEY, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Raymond J. DUNNE, Respondent, Appellee.
No. 6786.
United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.
Heard Nov. 8, 1966.
Decided Dec. 14, 1966.
Charles M. Burnim, Boston, Mass., with whom F. Lee Bailey, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellant.
Edward J. Lee, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Paul F. Markham, U. S. Atty., was on brief, for appellee.
Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, Mc-ENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.
OPINION OF THE COURT.
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff appellant, in the prosecution of this appeal, has violated one of our basic requirements. If there be any lack of clarity in our Rules 22(2) and 23 (1), dealing, respectively, with the content of and presentation of the record on appeal, our exposition of this obligation over the years has been repetitious to the point of redundancy. We cannot pass upon the correctness of findings when only a small portion of the transcript is made available. Even without a rule, this should be self-evident.
That would be the end of the case, except that in this instance we elect to deal with some of the matters that have been argued as if they had been adequately presented. Assuming for present purposes that the facts are as appellant contends, and disregarding inter alia, certain specific contrary findings of the district court, defendant, an investigatory agent of the Post Office removed $235 in currency belonging to the plaintiff from plaintiff’s house without a warrant, and without consent. Four years later plaintiff instituted this action of replevin against the officer in the Massachusetts state court, which was removed to the district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1442. We voice no criticism of the delay, but we mention it because it is hardly to be assumed, without proof, that the defendant was still in possession of this particular currency at the time of suit. No attempt was made to show that he was, and the uncontradicted testimony, so far as appears, is to the contrary. Replevin is a possessory action. Plaintiff fails at the threshold.
Plaintiff has further difficulties. It is conceded that prior to suit the defendant had offered to give plaintiff $235, but not this particular currency, and that plaintiff refused. Plaintiff has not shown that it would be possible to identify the particular currency he seeks, let alone that these bills were in any way unique. The first omission alone would be fatal. Furthermore, absent any showing that plaintiff has reason to prefer one particular piece of currency over another of the same denomination (and we observe that plaintiff did not even appear at the trial to testify that he did) we do not think the time of the district court should have been taken over this matter. We see even less reason, following the court’s findings, why. our time should also be taken.
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