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:
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. FAIRMONT CREAMERY CO.
No. 2862.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
July 29, 1944.
John E. Lawyer, of Washington, D. C. (Alvin J. Rockwell, Gen. Counsel, Howard Lichtenstein, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Roman Beck, and Thomas B. Sweeney, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for petitioner.
Leonard A. Flansburg, of Lincoln, Neb. (Charles H. Flansburg, of Lincoln, Neb., on the brief), for respondent.
Before PHILLIPS, BRATTON, and HUXMAN, Circuit Judges.
BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
The National Labor Relations Board seeks enforcement of its order entered in a conventional proceeding requiring Fairmont Creamery Company, a corporation, doing business under the name of Concordia Creamery Company, at Concordia, Kansas, to cease and desist from interfering with, restraining, or coercing its employees in their right of self-organization for purposes of collective bargaining, to post notices at its plant, and to notify the Regional Director of the Board.
The first question presented relates to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the material findings of the Board. Congress entrusted to the Board in a proceeding of this kind the function of passing upon the credibility of witnesses, determining the weight to be given to their testimony, drawing inferences from the facts and circumstances, choosing between inconsistent inferences, and resolving conflicts in evidence. And where the findings are supported by substantial evidence, they cannot be overturned on review. National Labor Relations Board v. Link-Belt Co., 311 U.S. 584, 61 S.Ct. 358, 85 L.Ed. 368; National Labor Relations Board v. Virginia Electric & Power Co., 314 U.S. 469, 62 S.Ct. 344, 86 L.Ed. 348; National Labor Relations Board v. Nevada Consolidated Copper Corp., 316 U.S. 105, 62 S.Ct. 960, 86 L.Ed. 1305; Utah Copper Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 10 Cir., 139 F.2d 788; National Labor Relations Board v. Concordia Ice Co., 10 Cir., 143 F.2d 656; National Labor Relations Board v. Fairmont Creamery Co., 10 Cir., 143 F.2d 668.
It would not serve any useful purpose to review the evidence in detail, as no two cases of this kind are identical. It is enough to say in resume that a painstaking review of the record leads us to the conclusion that the evidence adduced and the inferences reasonably to be drawn from it adequately support the findings. Therefore the findings are conclusive here.
The National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq., does not prohibit an employer from merely expressing his views concerning labor policies or problems. And isolated or casual expressions of individual views made by supervisory employees, not authorized by the employer and not of such character or made under circumstances reasonably calculated to generate the conclusion that they are an expression of his policy, fail to constitute interference with the employees in the exercise of their right of self-organization, within the intent and meaning t>f the Act. But a continued course of conduct, consisting in part of statements or comments of foreman and other employees having supervisory authority, in connection with other circumstances entitled to consideration, may in its totality constitute interference, restraint, coercion, and domination in respect of the right of self-organization. National Labor Relations Board v. Virginia Electric & Power Co., supra; Utah Copper Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, supra. Here, the number of statements made by supervisory employees of the company, their nature and substance, the time within which they were made, the conditions under which they were made, and other circumstances entitled to consideration, in their totality, warrant the conclusion that they were far more than mere casual or desultory expressions of individual views, unrelated to the policy of the company.
An order of enforcement will be entered.

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