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 "natural persons". 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:
ANTI-MONOPOLY, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL MILLS, INC., et al. Defendants-Appellees. ANTI-MONOPOLY, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL MILLS, INC., and General Mills Fun Group, Inc., Corporations, and Smeets En Schipper Spellen, B. V., a Corporation, as Co-Conspirator, Defendants-Appellees.
Nos. 78-2780, 79-4301.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued Aug. 10, 1981.
Submitted Nov. 9, 1981.
Decided Aug. 26, 1982.
Carl E. Person, New York City, argued, for plaintiff-appellant; John H. Denton, Oakland, Cal., on brief.
Robert S. Daggett, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.
Before DUNIWAY and SNEED, Circuit Judges, and TASHIMA, District Judge.
The Honorable A. Wallace Tashima, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
In these consolidated appeals, we reverse and remand summary judgments granted to defendants in antitrust cases brought under § 4 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 15, charging violations of §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1 and 2.
In our No. 78-2780, the trial court entered a summary judgment for the defendants in an action, No. C-74-2344 SW, in which Anti-Monopoly, Inc. charged the defendants with monopolization of the business of making and distributing certain games, specifically, the game of “Monopoly.” With this action, the trial court consolidated Counts II and III of Anti-Monopoly’s complaint in district court action No. C-74-0529. The judgment dismissed action No. C-74-2344 and Counts II and III of the complaint in action No. C-74-0529. This case we call the domestic case.
In our No. 79-4301, the trial court entered a summary judgment for the defendants in an action, No. C-75-1688 SW, in which Anti-Monopoly made similar charges relating' to foreign commerce in board games. We call this the foreign case.
District court action No. C-74-0529, the first count of the complaint, which we call the trademark case, has been twice tried and twice appealed to this court. The first appeal, our No. 77-2302, was decided in 1979, Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills Fun Group, 611 F.2d 296 (Anti-Monopoly I). The case dealt with the validity of General Mills’ registered trademark “Monopoly.” On remand, the trial court again entered judgment for General Mills, 1981, 515 F.Supp. 448 (Anti-Monopoly II). The second appeal, our No. 81-4281, Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills Fun Group, Inc., 684 F.2d 1316 (Anti-Monopoly III), we have decided today. In that decision, we hold that the trademark has become “generic,” and is not valid.
The Domestic Case
The district court has twice found that the “Monopoly” trademark is valid. After its first ruling, General Mills moved for dismissal of the domestic case under F.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The district court treated the motion as one for summary judgment under F.R.Civ.P. 56, and entered its judgment on the premise that General Mills had a valid trademark, and that enforcing that valid trademark cannot be, in itself, a violation of the antitrust laws. Because we have reversed the judgment that the “Monopoly” trademark is valid, we now reverse the judgment and remand the domestic case.
The Foreign Case
In the foreign case, Anti-Monopoly, Inc. claimed that General Mills had (1) brought groundless and vexatious actions against it and its licensees in various European countries, (2) made groundless claims in Europe claiming interests in expired patents, and (3) claimed trademark rights in the word “monopoly” knowing them to be invalid. General Mills moved for summary judgment. The district court granted the motion. It said that an affidavit and supporting documents showed that General Mills had prevailed in every one of its European proceedings against Anti-Monopoly, Inc., that this affidavit was not controverted, and that this disposed of claim (1). We agree. Anti-Monopoly has not challenged this on appeal. We affirm the judgment as it relates to claim (1).
As to claim (2), the district court said:
Defendants, however, are not entitled to summary judgment on the charge of assertion of groundless patent claims. They have not met their burden of proof. Mutual Fund Investors v. Putman Management Co., 553 F.2d 620 (9th Cir. 1977). The Berman affidavit indicates that he is responsible for foreign trademark litigation. It is not clear whether the allegations in the complaint relate to formal litigation or also include informal claims. If the latter, the Berman affidavit is not dispositive. Since it is unclear, summary judgment is inappropriate on this basis.
As to claim (3), the district court ruled: The third claim of the complaint relating to defendants assertion of trademark rights in MONOPOLY is disposed of by this court’s prior decision in the trademark infringement action.
In the light of today’s decision in Anti-Monopoly III, the decision as to claim (3) cannot stand.
Surprisingly, after holding that defendants were not entitled to summary judgment on claim (2), the district court also said:
Moreover, defendants are also entitled to summary judgment on all claims in the complaint on the additional basis that no cognizable legal injury is alleged.
We find no basis for this ruling.
In No. 78-2780, we reverse the judgment.
In No. 79-4301, we affirm the judgment insofar as it gives judgment against the plaintiffs on the claims specifically set forth in paragraph 11(a) of the complaint, and reverse the judgment as it relates to paragraphs 11(b) and (c) of the complaint.
Both cases are remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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

Choices:

Answer: 0