Task: songer_appbus

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 "private business and its executives". 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.

PER CURIAM.
In response to this petition for the enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board respondent employer does not contest the finding that it violated section 8(a) (1), namely, that it engaged in improper intimidation, and sought to create an impression of surveillance of its employees during a union organizing campaign. The sole issue relates to the allegedly discriminatory 8(a) (3) discharge of employee Commisso.
The union started to organize on November 9, 1964. Respondent's officials, so far as the testimony goes, saw no union activity themselves, but did receive two letters informing the company of the campaign. Respondent’s president and sole stockholder, one Chipouras, expressed himself forcefully against the unionization of his employees. Among other things, a company supervisor, one Keeping, complained to one of the employees about the union’s activity, advised him not to sign an authorization card, and told him he knew of the meeting the night before at the house of employee N. In fact the meeting had been elsewhere. On November 19 the union filed a petition for an election. That same day Commisso committed • an act which, in our opinion, would not have made his discharge unreasonable.' On the other hand, it was not one which required such a response. On Noyémber 20 he was discharged, respondent assigning this conduct.
Commisso had, in fact, been an active card solicitor, but we are satisfied that the evidence was insufficient to warrant a finding that respondent knew it. However, we support the Board’s finding that his discharge was improperly motivated because of several circumstances. The primary one is that in response to Commisso’s inquiry why he was discharged, respondent’s president not only referred to his conduct, but added “There is a lot of -going around, and I am sick of it.” In view of respondent’s well advertised distaste for the union, we cannot say the Board was wrong in rejecting respondent’s claim that this remark referred to Commisso’s conduct of the day before. It seems entirely reasonable to view it as a reference to the union activity.
Moreover, in the light of the fact that respondent was willing to make an accusation about a union meeting although it was partly in error, it is not unreasonable to assume that it would discharge an employee it may have suspected of being a union adherent as an example without being sure of its facts. This possibility standing alone would not be enough. But in the light of the significant remark at the time of the discharge and the fact that the conduct fell considerably short of requiring so extreme a penalty, we think respondent has no valid complaint.
A decree will be entered enforcing the order of the Board.
., United Stone and Allied Products Workers of America, AFL-CIO.
. Having injured his shoulder in an automobile accident, Commisso reported that he could not work for a week. He did not disclose, however, that he was continuing to work at his part time job, where respondent discovered him to be doing work which could well have delayed his recovery. Allegedly, respondent was in particular need of work which only Commisso was trained to do. We can understand respondent’s annoyance. However, as a result of discharging Commisso instead of some lesser discipline, respondent set itself back several weeks while it trained a new man.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "private business and its executives"? Answer with a number.
Answer:

Answer: 0