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.

Opinion:
JEW THEU v. NAGLE, Commissioner of Immigration.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
November 12, 1929.
No. 5840.
Marshall B. Woodworth, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.
George J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., and Lucas E. Kilkenny, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.
Before RUDKIN, DIETRICH, and WILBUR, Circuit Judges.
DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, claiming to be the son of an American-born Chinese father, was denied admission upon the ground that the alleged relationship was not established. By the court below his application for a writ of habeas corpus was denied, and he appeals.
Much of the oral argument was addressed to a perplexing question of procedure in the trial court, but subsequently, by stipulation, the record was put in such condition that we have only to consider the merits, and the single question is whether the evidence submitted1 on the application for admission so conclusively established the alleged relationship that the order of exclusion should be held arbitrary or capricious.
Admittedly the record discloses discrepancies, and on a careful consideration of them we cannot say that they are immaterial or trivial. Appellant claims to have been bom in December, 1915, and he arrived in San Francisco on March 3, 1928. His age was therefore such that he should have been able to testify intelligently.
Though one of his alleged older brothers returned to the United States from China within about a month from the time he arrived, he came on a steamer in company with one Jew Yot, whom, he testified, he had scarcely known in China. It is perhaps possible, but only by a severe strain can his testimony be reconciled with that of this man touching their previous acquaintanceship.
Much more serious is the striking inconsistency between his testimony and that of an alleged older brother, Jew Yim, in respect of the place where the latter lived during a visit made by him in China for a considerable period of time immediately preceding the appellant’s departure for the United States. He testified in detail that this brother and his wife resided during the visit in his (appellant’s) home, whereas the brother positively testified he was not there at all. The testimony is so circumstantial that it would be unreasonable to conclude that the discrepancies arose out of any inadvertence or misunderstanding, and it is equally difficult to avoid the conclusion that one or the other knowingly testified falsely. The conflict does not seem to be susceptible of even a plausible explanation.
Less significant perhaps, but material, are discrepancies touching the location of the few houses in the village from whieh appellant claims to have come, and the conflicts between his testimony and that of his two alleged brothers residing in this country, namely, Jew She and Jew Hong, relative to his birthplace.
Upon the whole we are clear that under well-settled rules we would not be warranted in interfering with the conclusion of the administrative officers, and accordingly the judgment below is affirmed.

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.

Choices:

Answer: 0