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:
DOYLE et al. v. UNITED STATES.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
May 31, 1929.
No. 8071.
Jobo. T. Harley, of Tulsa, Okl., for plaintiffs in error.
W. B.'Blair, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Tulsa, Okl. (John M. Goldesberry, U. S. Atty., and Harry Seaton, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Tulsa, Okl., on tbe brief), for the United States.
Before STONE,- Circuit Judge, and FARIS and SYMES, District Judges.
SYMES, District Judge.
Tbe plaintiffs in error, hereafter called defendants, were indicted and convicted in the Northern district of Oklahoma. The first count of the indictment charged a conspiracy to possess liquor unlawfully within the limits of the Indian Territory, and sets out five overt acts. The second to sixth counts of the indictment made substantive offenses of sale or possession out of the overt acts.
Both defendants were acquitted1 on the conspiracy count. Doyle was convicted upon the second count, to wit, possession, the third count, sale, the fourth count, possession, and the fifth count, sale'; but acquitted on the sixth count, possession. Kimes was found not guilty on all counts except the sixth, possession.
Counsel for plaintiffs in error advance three reasons for reversal: First, that the court erred in admitting the evidence of offenses other than those charged in the indictment, citing cases to the proposition that evidence of offenses distinct from those charged is not competent. The testimony disclosed numerous sales and acts of possession within a comparatively short space of time; that is, between the 12th and 20th of August, 1925,' inclusive.
The government agents bought liquor on the dates in question on certain premises where a saloon seems to have been conducted by the defendant Doyle. The particular evidence objected to was, that on August 18th two of the government officers crossed -the state line in the immediate neighborhood of the premises, 30 steps away, and found several jugs hidden, which they said had recently contained whisky, as evidenced by the odor, and also picked up a gunny-sack containing several bottles of whisky; that the place where these articles were found was connected by a well-beaten path with the premises of the defendant, where the offenses occurred.
Three cases in this circuit — McMillan v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 27 F.(2d) 94; Anderson v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 18 F.(2d) 404, and Cook v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 14 F.(2d) 833 — have passed on this question. They hold that evidence of distinct offenses, independent of those charged in the indictment or information, is competent only where intent is an essential ingredient of the crime charged, except where they are so related to the main issue, or are part of the surrounding circumstances in respeet to time and character, as to aid in its solution, and that considerable discretion is allowed the trial judge in deciding whether such evidence tends in some degree, at least, to corroborate the other evidence. See, also, generally, U. S. v. Anderson (C. C. A.) 31 F.(2d) 436.
Moreover, on a conspiracy charge, the government is not confined to the overt acts actually pleaded, but may show other transactions of a similar nature occurring at the time charged. Another rule material here is that evidence of possession of liquor on or about the date, and in the immediate neighborhood of the place of sale, is competent in support of a sales count. Petroff v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 13 F.(2d) 453.
The next point is^ advanced in behalf of Kimes, and charges error in the refusal of the court to direct a verdict in.his favor on the sixth count. This defendant was acquitted on all but this one. The evidence on this is, briefly, that when the officers broke in on the day of the raid they found Kimes running from behind the bar with a bottle of whisky in his hand, which he immediately broke by throwing it on the floor. Defendant’s story is that, shortly before the officers broke in, a stranger in the building gave him this bottle; that he did not know what the contents were, but threw it upon the floor and broke it. Clearly this presented an issue of fact for the jury, and their verdict cannot be disturbed.
Under the third point, the defendant Kimes says the court committed reversible error in permitting the government to recall him for further cross-examination when the court recessed, to show that the defendant Doyle gave him $10 in money. The evidence shows that both sides rested at the noon recess; that when the court reconvened at 2:30 the government recalled Kimes for further cross-examination, whereupon he testified that at the time of the crime, and at the times named in the indictment, he had a speaking acquaintance with Doyle for about a year previous, and that that was all the acquaintance he had ever had with him. He then admitted that when court recessed at noon Doyle gave him $10 out in front of the courthouse. This was after he had completed his testimony. Objection to and motion to strike out this evidence was overruled, the court stating that it was permitted only to show the acquaintance and relation existing between the parties.
We are of the opinion that this evidence did not throw any light upon the crime charged, which occurred two years previous to the trial. It should have been excluded. It was immaterial, however, and, if any harm were done the defendant by its admission, it could easily have been corrected by a proper instruction, but none was tendered or requested on this point. Where evidence is introduced, which is liable to be applied to a purpose different from that intended, it is the duty of the court, upon request, to limit the application of the evidence to the purpose for which it is competent. 16 C. J. 854, § 2155. Failure to do so, however, is not error, in the absence of a special request. Moffatt v. U. S., 232 F. 522 (8th C. C. A.); Schultz v. U. S., 200 F. 234 (8th C. C. A.).
On the entire record we are of the opinion that the verdict of the jury was fully justified, and that we are not warranted in setting it aside. Section 269, Judicial Code; USCA tit. 28, § 391.
The conviction and judgment of the lower court 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.

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Answer: 0