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:
ONG v. HUNTER, Warden.
No. 4430.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
April 16, 1952.
Rehearing Denied May 12, 1952.
Leo W. Kennedy, Denver, Colo., for appellant.
Lester Luther, U. S, Atty., and V. J. Bowersock, Asst. U. ’ S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., for appellee.
Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and BRATTON and HUXMAN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
So far as material appellant, Zeddie Ong, was sentenced on December 17, 1936, by the United States District Court of West Virginia to serve a sentence of five years on each of counts one, two and three of an indictment, the' sentences being made to run consecutively to each other. Thereafter on August 11, 1939, he was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas on count one of an indictment to serve a sentence of three years. The language of the sentence in question read as follows: “Said sentence to begin at the expiration of the sentence the defendant is now serving in the United States Penitentiary and run consecutively thereto.” The prison authorities construed the sentence to mean that it was to begin at the conclusion of the fifteen year sentence imposed by the West Virginia Court and accordingly charged appellant with a total servitude of eighteen years.
Appellant in his application for a writ o.f habeas corpus takes the position that the three year Kansas sentence ran concurrently with the West Virginia five year sentence on count two and that the total sentence chargeable to him should therefore be only fifteen years. He chooses to treat the sentence of the West Virginia Court as -three separate sentences of five years each and from that argues that since he was serving the sentence imposed on count one at the time that -he was sentenced by the Kansas Court, the Kansas Court by the use of -the singular of the word “sentence,” in imposing its three years consecutive sentence on count one, must have intended that sentence to begin when -he had completed his sentence on count one of the West Virginia sentence. Such construction would cause the Kansas sentence to run concurrently with the sentence imposed on count two by the West Virginia Court and would make, as contended by him, the total amount of his servitude fifteen years.
With such a construction we cannot agree. We think it is clear that the Kansas Court intended appellant to serve three years additional time in addition to the time he was serving under sentence from the West Virginia Court. We do not think the Kansas Court had in mind such refinement of reasoning as appellant argues for. -It is, of course,' essential that criminal sentences be reasonably certain, definite and free from ambiguity. Smith v. United States, 10 Cir., 177 F.2d 434. But the elimination of every conceivable doubt is not requisite to their validity or enforcement. Ziebart v. Hunter, 10 Cir., 177 F.2d 847. It is not required that every possibility which may be conjured up by an active mind be eliminated. We find no uncertainty in the meaning of the sentence in question and agree with the trial court that the sentencing court intended the three year sentence to be served in addition to the fifteen years, which appellant was required to serve under the West .Virginia Court sentence.
Affirmed.
. The judgment in this case also imposed sentences on other counts which are, however, not material to this appeal.
. Emphasis supplied.

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

Choices:

Answer: 0