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:
Kenneth A. GREEN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 17489.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Dec. 20, 1961.
Kenneth A. Green, El Reno, Okl., appellant, in pro. per.
Francis C. Whelan, U. S. Atty., Thomas R. Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief, Criminal Division, David Y. Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.
Before JERTBERG and BROWNING, Circuit Judges, and TAYLOR, District Judge.
JERTBERG, Circuit Judge.
Appellant was convicted on his plea of guilty to both counts of a two-count indictment, each charging the offense of violating Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 2314, in that appellant unlawfully and fraudulently caused to be transported in interstate commerce a false security, the cheek in Count 1 being in the amount of $214.45 and the check in Count 2 in the amount of $322.
On December 14, 1959, appellant was sentenced under Count 1 to imprisonment for two years. Imposition of sentence under Count 2 was suspended, and appellant was placed on probation for a period of five years, to commence upon completion of service of sentence imposed on Count 1. On the same day, the district court ordered a stay of execution of the sentence until twelve o’clock noon, January 18, 1960.
On April 25, 1960, following appellant’s conviction on his plea of nolo contendere to a one-count indictment charging violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 2314, alleged to have been committed on or about January 8, 1960, the appellant was sentenced to imprisonment for three years, such sentence to run concurrently with the sentence imposed under the two-count indictment.
On May 3, 1961, the appellant moved the district court “for the discharge of the defendant from Count 2 of the two-count indictment * * The motion was denied and this appeal is from the order denying such motion.
Appellant, who appears in propria persona, makes two contentions.
First, he contends that the district court was without authority to suspend the imposition of sentence on Count 2 of the two-count indictment and place him on probation for the five-year period to commence upon completion of the two-year penitentiary sentence imposed on Count 1 of the same indictment.
Such contention is without merit.
The two offenses set forth in the two-count indictment are separate and distinct offenses, for which separate and distinct sentences may be imposed. Castle v. United States, 287 F.2d 657 (5th Cir. 1961); Carlson v. United States, 274 F.2d 694 (8th Cir.1960); United States v. Taylor, 210 F.2d 110 (2d Cir.1954). The punishment provided by Title 18 U.S. C.A. § 2314, is a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both. Title 18 U.S. C.A. § 3651, authorizes a suspension of imposition of sentence and the granting of probation. The sentence pronounced by the district court on Count 2 of the two-count indictment is specifically authorized by said section, which in pertinent part reads:
“Probation may be granted whether the offense is punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. If an offense is punishable by both fine and imprisonment, the court may impose a fine and place the defendant on probation as to imprisonment. Probation may be limited to one or more counts or indictments, but, in the absence of express limitation, shall extend to the entire sentence and judgment.”
The express contention urged by appellant was considered by this court and rejected in Weber v. Squier, 124 F.2d 618 (9th Cir.1941), certiorari denied 315 U.S. 810, 62 S.Ct. 800, 86 L.Ed. 1209, 1942. In the Weber case, the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for two years on one count of the indictment and for five years on another count of the same indictment, but execution of this sentence was suspended and the defendant was placed on probation for five years. At page 621, of 124 F.2d, this court states:
“ * * * there was nothing wrong with the District Court’s order in the instant case in sentencing petitioner to the penitentiary upon one count and at the same time sentencing him and suspending sentence under a period of probation under another count of the same indictment.”
To the same effect, see Palmer v. Sanford, 57 F.Supp. 104 (D.C.Ga.1944), affirmed 147 F.2d 549 (5th Cir.1945), certiorari denied 325 U.S. 878, 65 S.Ct. 1555, 89 L.Ed. 1995, 1945; United States v. Vasen, 222 F.2d 3 (7th Cir. 1955).
- Appellant quotes at great length from United States v. Murray, 275 U.S. 347, 48 S.Ct. 146, 72 L.Ed. 309, 1928. In the Murray case, it was held that where a person had begun to serve his sentence, the court was without power under the Probation Act to suspend further execution and grant probation, even though in that ease the term to which sentence was imposed had not expired. In the instant case, the suspension of imposition of sentence on Count 2 of the two-count indictment was pronounced at the same time as the sentence of imprisonment on Count 1 of the indictment, and hence before appellant had begun to serve his sentence on Count 1. Appellant appears to recognize that the holding in the Murray case is not apposite, but he derives comfort from a lengthy dissertation in the opinion with reference to the basic philosophy underlying the Probation Act.
Appellant’s second contention is that the imposition of the three-year imprisonment sentence for the violation set forth in the one-count indictment, to run concurrently with the sentence imposed on the two-count indictment, makes the probationary sentence imposed upon Count 2 of the indictment a nullity, because upon the expiration of the imprisonment sentence of two years pronounced upon Count 1, probation under Count 2 will run concurrently with the last year of the three-year imprisonment sentence imposed upon the one-count indictment. Appellant describes this situation, by a borrowed phrase, as an “unholy union.” It is clear that the Supreme Court does not so regard such situation. In Burns v. United States, 287 U.S. 216, 53 S.Ct. 154, 77 L.Ed. 266, 1932, the petitioner pleaded guilty to three counts of an indictment. He was sentenced on the first count to imprisonment for one year; on the second count, to pay a fine of $2,000; and on the third count, to imprisonment for five years. Execution of the last-mentioned sentence was suspended and the court granted probation for a period of five years under specified terms. While petitioner was serving his sentence on the first count, it was found that he had violated the terms of probation, and the district court revoked the probation order. After reviewing the Probation Act and the principles governing it, the court stated at page 223, 53 S.Ct. at page 156:
“Applying these principles, it is apparent that the instant case has the peculiar feature that the probationer was actually serving a jail sentence while on probation with respect to another sentence. But, even in jail, he was subject to the conditions of the probation.”
The court refused to disturb the order of the district court revoking the petitioner’s probation.
Appellant’s reliance on United States v. Greenhaus, 85 F.2d 116, 107 A.L.R. 630 (2d Cir.1936), is misplaced. In Weber v. Squier, supra, 124 F.2d at page 621 this court said:
“But as has been seen, we do not follow the Greenhaus doctrine, but hold that sentence to the penitentiary under one count and suspension of sentence with probation under another count is altogether a valid proceedings.”
In Frad v. Kelly, 302 U.S. 312, at page 316, 58 S.Ct. 188, at page 191, 82 L.Ed. 282, 1937, the Supreme Court said:
“The mere fact that a sentence of a fine and imprisonment had been imposed upon one of the indictments in no way militated against the prescription of probation in respect of the pica of guilty under the other two.”
We have noted appellee’s suggestion that we hold the running of the probationary period under Count 2 shall be tolled so as to commence to run upon the expiration of the three-year sentence-imposed upon the single-count indictment, and not upon the expiration of the two-year sentence imposed on Count 1 of the two-count indictment. We decline to do so. The question implied in such suggestion is not before us.
The order appealed from is affirmed.

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

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Answer: 0