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.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant. Consider the following categories: "not ascertained", "poor + wards of state" (e.g., patients at state mental hospital; not prisoner unless specific indication that poor), "presumed poor" (e.g., migrant farm worker), "presumed wealthy" (e.g., high status job - like medical doctors, executives of corporations that are national in scope, professional athletes in the NBA or NFL; upper 1/5 of income bracket), "clear indication of wealth in opinion", "other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy" (e.g., public school teachers, federal government employees)." Note that "poor" means below the federal poverty line; e.g., welfare or food stamp recipients. There must be some specific indication in the opinion that you can point to before anyone is classified anything other than "not ascertained". Prisoners filing "pro se" were classified as poor, but litigants in civil cases who proceed pro se were not presumed to be poor. Wealth obtained from the crime at issue in a criminal case was not counted when determining the wealth of the criminal defendant (e.g., drug dealers).

Opinion:
Chester L. OUGHTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
Misc. No. 382.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Sept. 7, 1954.
Chester L. Oughton, in propria persona.
William T. Plummer, U. S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for appellee.
Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and BONE and ORR, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Oughton, having appealed to this court from the district court’s order in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding denying his motion to set aside his life sentence, seeks our order to proceed forma pauperis with his appeal.
It appears from the records of the district court of which we take judicial notice that Oughton plead guilty on the same day to the offense for which he was given a life sentence and two other sentences, upon one of which he received a five-year sentence and upon another of which he received a year and a day. The sentences running concurrently were imposed on December 17, 1952.
From the above it is apparent that if he were successful in his present § 2255 proceeding attacking his life sentence, he would not be released from custody. Nor does his § 2255 motion allege that he is “claiming the right to be released” from custody as required by the following provision of § 2255:
“§ 2255. Federal custody; remedies on motion attacking sentence
“A prisoner in custody under sentence of a court established by Act of Congress claiming the right to he released upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or that the court was without jurisdiction to impose such sentence, or that the sentence was in excess of the maximum authorized by law, or is otherwise subject to collateral attack, may move the court which imposed the sentence to vacate, set aside or correct the sentence.
“A motion for such relief may be made at any time.” (Emphasis supplied.)
Obviously, the motion must be made by a prisoner “claiming the right to be released”. As stated by the Supreme Court the “sole purpose” in enacting this section “was to minimize the difficulties encountered in habeas corpus hearings by affording the same rights in another and more convenient forum.” United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205, 219, 72 S.Ct. 263, 272, 96 L.Ed. 232. In habeas corpus the applicant has no right to have adjudicated the validity of a sentence where, if adjudicated in his favor, he would still be confined in the same penitentiary under another existing sentence.
Since the § 2255 motion on its face showed no ground existed to invoke it, the district court was not required to bring Oughton before it in the proceeding in which it held the motion should be denied.
The motion to prosecute the appeal forma pauperis is ordered denied.
. Lopez v. Swope, 9 Cir., 205 F.2d 8, 9.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant?

Choices:
not ascertained
poor + wards of state
presumed poor
presumed wealthy
clear indication of wealth in opinion
other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy

Answer: 1