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 "fiduciaries". 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:
Pablo VINA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HUB ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 72-1599.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Argued April 18, 1973.
Decided June 29, 1973.
Allen R. Kamp, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.
Rody P. Biggert, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.
Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, and MURRAH and BARNES, Senior Circuit Judges.
Senior Circuit Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the Tenth Circuit is sitting by designation.
Senior Circuit Judge Stanley N. Barnes of the Ninth Circuit is sitting by designation.
SWYGERT, Chief Judge.
Pablo Vina appeals from the decision of the district court dismissing his complaint for want of prosecution.
Vina filed a pro se complaint on November 26, 1971, against Hub Electric Company alleging employment discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. The form complaint was apparently provided him by the district court clerk along with a form affidavit of indigency. In the form complaint, Vina asked that fees for bringing the suit be waived and that the district court appoint counsel to represent him. The district judge, on November 20, 1971, denied the requests for appointment of counsel and leave to proceed in forma pauperis. The following day, the clerk of the district court billed Vina for the cost of filing the complaint, and Vina paid the $15 filing fee. Although the complaint was filed and the filing fee paid, the clerk never issued summons. Rule 4(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides a clear mandate to the clerk to immediately issue a summons and deliver it to the marshal for service: “Upon the filing of the complaint the clerk shall forthwith issue a summons and deliver it for service to the marshal or to a person specially appointed to serve it.” (emphasis added). There is no explanation in the record as to why the clerk did not follow the rule.
Vina thereafter obtained counsel through the Legal Aid Bureau who filed an amended complaint on March 27, 1972. Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows for such an amended complaint to be filed without leave of court since no responsive pleading had yet been filed by Hub Electric, the defendant. Summons then issued and the amended complaint was served on April 28, 1972. Hub Electric did not file an answer, but on May 18, 1972, the last day for filing the answer, it filed a motion to dismiss for failure to obtain leave of court prior to filing the amended complaint and a motion for extension of time to answer or otherwise plead. At a hearing on May 18 on defendant’s motion, Vina’s counsel argued that he was an attorney employed by Legal Aid and that due to the number of poor persons seeing attorneys, there was a two to three month wait before a client could be interviewed by an attorney. The district judge, sua sponte, dismissed the cause for want of prosecution and treated Hub Electric’s motions as moot. It is obvious from the judge’s remarks that he considered the “case closed” as of November 30, 1971, when he denied leave to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis even though Vina later paid the filing fee. The judge also informed Vina’s counsel that he should have specifically advised the court of the filing of his appearance and requested leave to file the amended complaint (although such leave was not required by Rule 15(a)).
The question on appeal is whether the district judge abused his discretion in dismissing Vina’s case for want of prosecution. We hold that he did and accordingly reverse.
The district judge and Hub Electric both rely on Link v. Wabash Railroad Co., 370 U.S. 626, 82 S.Ct. 1386, 8 L.Ed. 2d 734 (1962), to support the proposition that a district court may dismiss a case for want of prosecution on its own motion. That case involved the dismissal of a six year old case which had previously been assigned two fixed trial dates which had been postponed. Plaintiff’s counsel failed to attend a pretrial conference and later gave a lame excuse for his absence. The case before us is not of the same genre. The other cases cited by Hub Electric are similarly inapropos.
Hub Electric argues that Vina should have investigated and made sure that service of the summons had been obtained and that he had “familiarize [d] himself with court procedures before proceeding pro se.” Hub Electric further argues that the same standards must be applied to pro se plaintiffs as are applied to plaintiffs represented by counsel. Such a statement is highly questionable. Cf. Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520, 92 S.Ct. 594, 30 L.Ed.2d 652 (1972). In its argument for requiring pro se complainants to be skilled in the law, Hub Electric ignores the thirty day time limit which Vina had to file his complaint. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e). He also ignores the fact that Vina diligently sought counsel by court appointment and later by Legal Aid. Even if the same standards were to be applied to pro se litigants as to litigants represented by counsel (which we do not hold), it would not affect this case since Vina, whether pro se or represented, cannot be held responsible for the clerk’s failure to perform his duties of issuing the summons and delivering it to the marshal.
Vina had the right to file an amended complaint without leave of court pursuant to Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. There was no basis in the record to support a finding that Vina had not been diligent in prosecuting his case. Nor has there been any showing of prejudice to defendant in the delay.
The dismissal is reversed and the ease is remanded under Circuit Rule 23 to be assigned to another district judge.
. Vina received a “right to sue” letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on November 11, 1971, notifying him that lie may institute a civil action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the district court within thirty days of receipt of the letter.
. This was the first notice Hub Electric received of the suit.
. Rule 21(a) of the local rules of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois provides that “[c]ases which have been inactive for more than six months may be dismissed for want of prosecution.” This case does not fall under that rule since the inactivity was not six months in duration.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "fiduciaries"? Answer with a number.

Choices:

Answer: 0