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:
CHENERY v. EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY ASSUR. CORPORATION, Limited.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
April 6, 1925.)
No. 4449.
1. Carriers <@=4—One may be engaged in one line of business as common carrier and in another line of business as private carrier.
The same person or corporation may be engaged in one line of business as a common carrier, and in another line of business as a private carrier.
2. insurance <@=452—Operators of bus line held private and not “common carrier,” within accident policy.
Operators of bus line between two cities, who by special arrangement transported passenger in small automobile to city, where he was transferred to bus for transportation to other city, held still a private and not a common carrier as to such passenger within accident policy covering transportation by “common carrier.”
[Ed. Note.—For other definitions, pee Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Common Carrier.]
3. Evidence <@=472(l) — Carrier’s testimony that he could refuse to carry passengers in-. admissible, in action involving issue as to whether he was private or common carrier.
In action involving issue, as to whether operator of bus line was private or common carrier, within accident policy, operator could not testify that he could refuse to carry passengers, since such testimony would have been a mere conclusion on the main issue.
4. Insurance <@=668(11)—Whether carrier was private carrier or common carrier, within accident policy, held question for court, and not question of fact for jury.
In action on accident policy, involving issue as to whether carrier by which injured person was being transported was a common carrier within the policy, the question whether the carrier was a private or a common carrier under the facts held a question for the-court, and not a question of fact for the jury.
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Northern District of California; George M. Bourquin, Judge.
Action by Leonard Chenery, as administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Edith P. Chenery, deceased, against the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
Affirmed.
Wallace & Ames, of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff in error.
Redman & Alexander, of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant in error.
Before GILBERT, HUNT, and RUDKIN, Circuit Judges.
RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by an administrator with the will annexed on a policy of insurance providing indemnity for the loss of life or injuries resulting through accidental means. At the close of the testimony on the part of the plaintiff, the court below directed a verdict in favor of the defendant; hence the present writ of error.
The sole question for our consideration is this: Did the intestate meet her death while a passenger in or on a public conveyance provided by a common carrier for passenger service? There was no controversy over the facts. For about five years prior to the date in question Roberts & Ward operated a motor bus line between the towns of Clevedon and Papakura, in New Zealand, for the transportation of passengers and light parcels for hire. The distance between the 'two points is about 8 miles and the busses made three trips daily, leaving Clevedon at 7 a. in., 8:30 a. m., and 3:30 p. m. The regular passenger fare was three shillings, single; six shillings, return. In addition to operating the bus line between the points in question, Roberts & Ward transported passengers to and from points beyond Clevedon by special arrangement. By special arrangement we mean simply a request for the transportation by telephone or otherwise and the payment of the compensation agreed upon. During the month of June," 1923, the intestate was visiting a sister at Sandspit, about nine miles east of Clevedon. On the afternoon of June 16, the intestate and, three companions, desiring to take the train at Papakura that evening, made arrangements with-Roberts & Ward, by telephone, to meet them at some point on the road between Sandspit and Clevedon and transport them to Papakura. Pursuant .to this arrangement the four parties in question proceeded in a farm cart from Sandspit until they met Ward at Whakatiri, about six miles west of Sandspit. At that point they transferred from the farm cart to a Ford car driven by Ward and proceeded on to Clevedon. At Clevedon they transferred from the Ford car to a’Dodge motor bus and proceeded on toward Papakura, but before reaching their destination the motor bus overturned and the intestate was killed. There were no passengers in the Ford car or in the motor bus, except the intestate and her three companions, and no baggage except that belonging to the intestate and her companions.. No parcels were transported except one loaf of bread and one newspaper; but where these were taken up, or where they were to be delivered, the record does not disclose.
It is well settled by the authorities that the same person or corporation may be engaged in one line of business as a common carrier and in another line of business as a private carrier. Santa Fé Railway v. Grant Bros., 228 U. S. 177, 33 S. Ct. 474, 57 L. Ed. 787; Terminal Taxicab Co. v. Dist. of Col., 241 U. S. 252, 36 S. Ct. 583, 60 L. Ed. 984, Ann. Cas. 1916D, 765; Rathbun v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation, 299 Ill. 562, 132 N. E. 754, 19 A. L. R. 140; Forbes v. Reinman & Wolfort, 112 Ark. 417, 166 S. W. 563, 51 L. R. A. (X. S.) 1164; Georgia Life Ins. Co. v. Easter, 189 Ala. 472, 66 So. 514, L. R. A. 1915C, 456. Roberts & Ward were no doubt common carriers of passengers on their regular run between Papakura and Clevedon. It seems equally clear that they wore mere private carriers when they undertook to carry passengers beyond their regular run by special arrangement or agreement. Had the carriers, in this ease, transported the intestate and her eornn anions under the special contract or agreement from Sandspit or Whakatiri to Papakura, without passing over any part of the main road from Clevedon to Papakura, it would seem clear that they were private carriers only; and if the intestate met her death while in the Ford car before reaching Clevedon, the same conclusion would follow. We do not think that the fact that a part of the trip was made over the main road from Clevedon to Papakura, or the fact that the passengers were transferred from the Ford car to the motor bus at Clevedon, changes the rule. The reason for' the transfer is not disclosed by the record, but it does appear that the transfer at Clevedon was not made to one of the regular busses engaged in the common carrier service. In any event, the transportation was an entire one under an entire contract, and the carriers acted in the same capacity throughout. In our opinion, that capacity was a private one.
It is claimed by thp plaintiff in error that the carrier did not testify that he could refuse to carry passengers beyond the main line under the private contract or arrangement. True, the witness did not so testify, nor would he have been permitted to do so. His answer would be a mere conclusion. If a common carrier, he had no right to refuse; but, if only a private carrier, he had that right. To permit him to answer the question would be to permit him to decide the main issue in the case, and that was the function of the court and jury. Nor can we agree with counsel for plaintiff in error that there was a question of faet for the consideration of the jury, for, under the admitted facts in the case, the carriers were either common carriers or private carriers, and it was the plain duty of the court to direct a verdict for either one or the other of the parties. The direction of a verdict in the favor of the defendant was, in our opinion, free from error.
This distinction between a common carrier and a private carrier may seem somewhat refined and technical, but the intestate was not insured unless she met her death while a passenger in or on a public conveyance provided by a common carrier for passenger service.
The judgment 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.

Choices:

Answer: 0