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.
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 is to determine the nature of the first listed respondent.

Opinion:
HUNTER et al. v. WARD.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
November 9, 1926.)
No. 7340.
1. Courts <@=»375.
Under conformity statute (Comp. St. § 1538), federal courts will follow state statute of limitation in suit to recover for fraudulent conversion of stolen property.
2. Limitation of actions <@=>130(5) — Under Arkansas statute giving plaintiff, who suffers nonsuit, right to commence new action within one year, such a plaintiff cannot, after limitation period, bring repeated actions after successive nonsuits (Crawford & Moses’ Dig. Ark. § 6969).
Under Crawford & Moses’ Dig. Ark. § 6969, declaring period of limitations applicable to various kinds of actions, and providing that, if any action be commenced within the time allowed, and plaintiff therein suffer nonsuit, he “may commence a new action within one year after such nonsuit,” a plaintiff may not bring repeated actions after successive nonsuits, but only one action after expiration of the applicable period of limitation.
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas; Frank A. Youmans, Judge.
Action by E. H. Hunter and others against Earl N. Ward, to recover for alleged wrongful and fraudulent conversion of property alleged to have been stolen. Judgment for defendant on demurrer to amended petition, and plaintiffs bring error.
Affirmed.
George W. Dodd, of Ft. Smith, Ark., for plaintiffs in error.
Thomas B. Pryor and Vincent M. Miles, both of Ft. Smith, Ark., for defendant in error.
Before STONE and LEWIS, Circuit Judges, and SYMES, District Judge.
STONE, Circuit Judge.
From a judgment entered after sustaining a demurrer to an amended petition, this writ of error is sued out. The demurrer is based on the running of the state statute of limitations, as shown on the face of the amended petition.
This right of action accrued March 30, 1919. On March 28, 1922 (just two days before the applicable state statute of limitations would have expired), a suit was filed. A voluntary nonsuit was taken therein on January 23, 1923. On May 11, 1923, a second suit for the same cause of action was filed. There was a voluntary nonsuit as to this second action on June 24, 1924. The present action was filed February 9, 1925.
Under the conformity statute (Comp. St. § 1538), the federal courts will follow the state statutes of limitations in the character of action here involved (O’Sullivan v. Felix, 233 U. S. 318, 322, 34 S. Ct. 596, 58 L. Ed. 980; McClaine v. Rankin, 197 U. S. 154, 158, 25 S. Ct. 410, 49 L. Ed. 702, 3 Ann. Cas. 500). The statute of the state as to limitations governing the character of action here involved is three years, with a provision, applicable to various kinds of actions, as to other later suits upon the same cause of action. That provision is contained in Crawford & Moses’ Digest of the Laws of Arkansas, § 6989, and the pertinent portion is as follows:
“If any action shall be commenced within the time respectively prescribed in this act, and the plaintiff therein suffer a non-suit, or after a verdict for him the judgment be arrested, or after judgment for him the same be reversed on appeal or writ of error, such plaintiff may commence a new action within one year after such nonsuit suffered or judgment arrested or reversed.”
The sole question here is whether this quoted portion of the state statute gives the right to bring repeated actions or only one action after expiration of the three-year limitation and within one year after the original action has been disposed of. There is no controlling decision by the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Plaintiff in error places some reliance upon Turrentine v. St. Louis S. W. Ry. Co., 96 Ark. 181, 131 S. W. 337; but that case is not in point and is not helpful as to the particular matter before us. Turning to other jurisdictions, we are not greatly aided, The rule in each jurisdiction depends on the wording of the particular statute and even where those statutes are similar in wording to the statute here involved, those decisions are not uniform. However, if there is a weight of authority either way, that weight and, to our minds, the sound reasoning, seems to favor the rule that only one such new action can be brought. Morrow v. A. & C. Air Line Ry. Co., 84 S. C. 224, 66 S. E. 186, 19 Ann. Cas. 1009; Reed v. C., N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co., 136 Tenn. 499, 190 S. W. 458.
There is, however, one matter which may serve as a guide in connection with this particular statute. The statute, as above quoted, is an amended form of an earlier statute found in Mansfield’s Digest, § 4497. The earlier form of the statute was as follows:
“If any action shall be commenced within the times respectively prescribed in this act, and the plaintiff therein suffer a nonsuit, or, after a verdict for him, the judgment be arrested, or, after judgment for him, the same be reversed on appeal or writ of error, such plaintiff may commence a new action, from time to time, within one year after such nonsuit suffered or judgment arrested or reversed.”
The change, made by the amendment, was the elimination of the words “from time to time.” This change apparently reveals the legislative intent to limit the bringing of new suits to one suit after the governing limitation expires and within one year from disposal of the last suit.
The judgment should be and is affirmed.

Question: What is the nature of the first listed respondent?

Choices:
private business (including criminal enterprises)
private organization or association
federal government (including DC)
sub-state government (e.g., county, local, special district)
state government (includes territories & commonwealths)
government - level not ascertained
natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)
miscellaneous
not ascertained

Answer: 7