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:
Terrance MARSHALL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NEPTUNE MARITIME, INC., Marble Investment Co., S.A., and Unitex, Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 87-3006
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Sept. 30, 1987.
B.R. Malbrough, Morris Bart & Assoc., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.
Robert H. Murphy, Peter B. Sloss, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.
Before GEE, GARWOOD and JONES, Circuit Judges.
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
From a jury verdict finding the defendant shipowner non-negligent and therefore not liable for appellant grain inspector’s alleged slip-and-fall injury on board the M/V Baryon, appellant complains solely of defects in the court’s charge. Hampered by an incomplete appellate record, but nonetheless convinced from what we are able to review that the charge was adequate, we affirm.
In the course of preparing for this appeal, appellant failed to procure a transcript of the entire proceedings, and instead opted, pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(b), to secure only the 78 pages of transcript covering the magistrate’s charge to the jury. Appellant failed to inform appellee, as required by FRAP 10(b)(3), that only a partial transcript was being secured. Failure to abide by the rules of appellate procedure is not to be lightly overlooked. In this case, however, appellee will not be disadvantaged by the omission.
Appellant’s most serious complaint is made against the magistrate’s charge that, “[A] worker such as a grain inspector, when she enters upon her calling, must assume all inherent and unavoidable risk of her occupation, as all persons must; and she cannot recover for injuries resulting solely from such inherent and unavoidable risks”. Appellant contends that this instruction injects the defense of assumption of risk improperly into the case. Although assumption of risk has been held inapplicable in longshoremen’s negligence actions against a shipowner pursuant to LHWCA § 905(b), Gay v. Ocean Transport & Trading Ltd., 546 F.2d 1233 (5th Cir.1977), appellant was not a longshoreman. Even if assumption of risk remains a defense, an issue we do not pursue, the charge did not raise the defense. Rather, the language concerning a plaintiff’s assumption of unavoidable risks is used in the layman’s sense of those terms and connotes that a plaintiff must exercise some responsibility for her own safety in the face of “unavoidable risk, which does not arise out of negligence” (quoting from the charge). See, e.g., Stass v. American Commercial Lines, Inc., 720 F.2d 879, 882-84 (5th Cir.1983). We note that the charge elsewhere included a definition of comparative negligence that is not inconsistent with this instruction. Furthermore, the instruction informed the jury that the vessel owner would be liable for its own negligence including failure to warn a plaintiff of latent dangers. Thus, the charge as a whole conveyed the proper standards to the jury.
It is impossible to judge which standard of review applies to this aspect of the charge, given appellant’s failure to have brought us transcript evidence of her compliance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 51. The transcript we have received does not contain an objection to this portion of the court’s charge, although appellant’s brief describes her objection to this issue as “vigorous”. Parsing the trial court record, we note that appellant’s motion for new trial referred to her objection to this issue, and defendant, in its response, did not contest the propriety of her objection. We need not reach the question which standard of review ought to apply (“plain error” for an unobjected-to instruction, or error in the whole charge, where the objection was properly lodged), because we have concluded that the charge given as a whole adequately reflected the applicable law and did not mislead the jury. Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Company, 571 F.2d 290, 300 (5th Cir.1978).
Appellant additionally complains that the negligence charge should have been framed verbatim according to Scindia Steam Navigation Company v. De Los Santos, 451 U.S. 156, 101 S.Ct. 1614, 68 L.Ed.2d 1 (1981). We find no warrant for this complaint in light of the exhaustive nature of the court’s negligence charge. “It is axiomatic that the court need not couch its charge in the precise language and form fancied by a litigant’s attorney. [omitting citations]”. Coughlin, supra at 300.
We are unable to review appellant’s contention that the court should have instructed the jury that the vessel owner must inspect the premises to discover possible dangerous conditions of which he does not know and to protect the invitee from dangers which are foreseeable from arrangement or use. Appellant alleges that she specifically requested such a charge by the magistrate. Our truncated transcript affords no basis to review whether plaintiff requested such a charge, and whether the evidence in any way supported it. As the propriety of this charge would depend heavily upon the nature of the evidence, which is not before us, we decline to review this issue. United States v. Gerald, 624 F.2d 1291, 1296 and n. 6 (5th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 920, 101 S.Ct. 1369, 67 L.Ed.2d 348 (1981); Crawford v. Western Elec. Co., Inc., 614 F.2d 1300, 1304 (5th Cir.1980).
Appellant finally complains that the trial court erred by giving additional instructions to the jury after counsel for both parties had pointed out an error in the charge. Counsel for defendant, reinforced by appellant’s counsel, mentioned to the magistrate that he had included a “slightest negligence” instruction which, of course, does not pertain to a non-Jones Act case. The court offered to correct the instruction in writing and orally and, both counsel agreeing to this course of action, he did so. The magistrate attempted to inform the jury both that slightest negligence did not apply and that the plaintiff’s standard of care was not changed by this modification. Appellant now contends that the instructions given the jury misled them and suggested a verdict for the defendant. We disagree. The final form of the charge, including the initial and corrected instructions, might have been somewhat redundant and verbose, nevertheless, the trial court specifically informed the jury that they should not draw any inferences “from the fact that certain parts of the charges contain more discussion of certain issues than others.” Verbosity alone will not fatally prejudice a jury charge otherwise reasonably accurate. If we had a transcript of the attorneys’ closing arguments, we might be able better to assess the effect of the court’s redundancy. But we do not.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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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