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:
Joe Bradley SMITH and Myron Parker, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 17198.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
May 31, 1961.
Harry E. Claiborne, Las Vegas, Nev.,, for appellants.
Howard W. Babcock, U. S. Atty., and' Raymond E. Sutton, Asst. U. S. Atty., Las Vegas, Nev., for appellee.
Before HAMLEY and MERRILL, Circuit Judges, and WALSH, District Judge.
MERRILL, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is taken from conviction, of the crime commonly known as bank robbery. 18 U.S.C. § 2113(b). It challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to establish two elements of the crime: (1) the taking and carrying away of property; (2) the victim’s lack of consent to-the taking.
The government’s principal witness was a teller at the Bank of Nevada at Las Vegas, Nevada. He testified that he had known both appellants; that Parker had been a fellow employee at the Bank of Nevada and that he had known Smith when both of them had worked at a Reno bank. The evidence leading up to the theft, as he related it, was as follows:
On the morning of March 31, 1958,, while he was driving to work, appellant Parker passed him in his automobile and signaled that he wished to talk with him. He stopped and Parker stopped behind', him. Parker came over to the teller’s, car, got in and they talked:
“He asked me how chances were to-rob my window. * * * I said I thought it would be pretty good. He asked me how much would be in my cash drawer and I told him I thought, between eighty and ninety thousand dollars. * * * He said he wasn’t coming in to rob it but that another guy would and we would meet at noon to talk about it some more.”
The teller agreed to that arrangement and then reported the matter to the bank manager. He was told to go ahead with the arrangements and that the proper authorities would be notified.
At the noon meeting appellant Smith was present. It was agreed that Smith would come to the teller’s window and hand him a one hundred dollar bill to be changed. The teller then would hand Smith a bundle of money which he would have prepared in advance. About two o’clock Parker telephoned the teller and advised that Smith would be in in about fifteen minutes. The teller reported to the manager and then took all the money in his cash drawer, $65,000, put it in a money bag and put the bag in a locked inner vault. Smith arrived, presented a one hundred bill and asked- for change. The teller gave him change and then walked back to the inner vault, about sixty or seventy feet from his window, unlocked it, got the bag, returned to his window and put the bag on the counter in front of Smith. Smith put his hands on the bag and started to pull it toward him. He moved the bag a distance of two or three inches according to the teller; four to six inches according to another witness. At that point he was placed under arrest.
Appellant contends under these facts that a taking and carrying away of property has not been shown. He asserts that the money bag was not, under these circumstances, taken from the possession of the teller into the possession of Smith and carried away by Smith.
This contention is without merit. “The degree of the taking is immaterial, the least removing of the thing taken from the place it was before with intent to steal it being sufficient.” Rutkowski v. United States, 6 Cir., 1945, 149 F.2d 481, 483. To the same effect are State v. Nelson, 121 W.Va. 310, 3 S.E.2d 530; Davis v. State, 41 Ariz. 12, 15 P.2d 242; Daugherty v. State, 154 Neb. 376, 48 N.W.2d 76; State v. Richards, 3 Utah 2d 368, 284 P.2d 691.
Appellants contend that since the bank submitted to and actively cooperated in the taking it has demonstrated its consent to the taking and that the element of trespass (a taking without the consent of the owner), essential to common law larceny, is lacking.
The United States contends that while trespass is necessary to the common law crime of larceny it is not necessary to the statutory crime of which appellants have been convicted. This issue we need not decide.
The bank never consented to the taking in the trespass sense. Knowing of appellants’ felonious intent, it simply smoothed the way for the commission of the crime in order that the criminal might be apprehended. It was under no duty to prevent the crime nor to place obstacles in the way of its commission. We are not faced with any question of appellants’ having been enticed into the commission of a crime. The scheme originated with them. The bank merely submitted to it. Any active participation was in complete accord with the plan and intent of appellants.
Appellants place reliance on cases which are readily distinguishable in that not only was possession voluntarily surrendered but the title or right to possession as well. Hite v. United States, 10 Cir., 1948, 168 F.2d 973, was a Dyer Act case in which the defendant had fraudulently misrepresented as his own an automobile turned in on the purchase of a new car. It was held that this did not constitute a trespassory taking. The court followed and quoted from Loney v. United States, 10 Cir., 1945, 151 F.2d 1, to the effect that in this type of case the victim “intends to and does part voluntarily with his title to the property, as well as his possession thereof, not expecting the property to be returned to him or to be disposed of in accordance with his directions.” 151 F.2d 1, 4.
People v. Werner, 1940, 16 Cal.2d 216, 105 P.2d 927, was a case in which money had voluntarily been delivered for the purpose, known to the victim, of being used by the taker to bribe a public officer. Again the right to possession had been freely granted although for a criminal purpose.
In the instant case no party to the transaction had any thought that the bank for any reason was granting to the appellants any right to possession of the money. We conclude that the taking constituted a trespass and was without consent of the bank.
Affirmed.
. “Whoever takes and carries away, with intent to steal or purloin, any property or money or any other thing of value exceeding $100 belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of any bank, or any savings and loan association, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both * "*

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