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:
Chanel ALLEN, a minor child By and Through her mother, next friend and natural guardian, Vickie M. ALLEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. A.J. HORINEK and Marjorie Horinek, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 86-1822.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
Aug. 26, 1987.
Susan R. Schrag of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Wichita, Kan., for plaintiff-appellant.
Before LOGAN and TACHA, Circuit Judges and O’CONNOR, District Judge.
The Honorable Earl E. O'Connor, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas, sitting by designation.
PER CURIAM.
After examining the briefs and the appellate record, this three-judge panel has determined unanimously that oral argument would not be of material assistance in the determination of this appeal. See Fed.R. App.P. 34(a); 10th Cir.R. 34.1.8(c) and 27.1.-2. The cause is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument.
The parties to this appeal were advised that the court was considering summary dismissal for lack of appellate jurisdiction. The question before us is whether the notice of appeal was prematurely filed and is thus a nullity. Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co., 459 U.S. 56, 103 S.Ct. 400, 74 L.Ed.2d 225 (1982).
Following the entry of judgment on a jury verdict, plaintiff timely filed a motion for new trial pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 59. The trial judge held a hearing on the motion, at the conclusion of which he denied the motion from the bench. The courtroom minute sheet also reflects the denial of the motion. The docket entry for the May 6, 1986, hearing date reads as follows: “Hearing on motion for new trial — denied. Order to follow.” Plaintiff filed her notice of appeal on May 28. On June 19 an order issued denying the motion for new trial; the docket entry of that order was made June 20.
In Acosta v. Louisiana Department of Health & Human Resources, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 2876, 92 L.Ed.2d 192 (1986), the Supreme Court held that Fed.R.App.P.4(a)(4) constitutes an exception to the general rule that a notice of appeal filed after announcement of an order but before its entry in the docket will be deemed timely filed. The provisions of Fed.R.App.P.4(a)(2) specifically require that if a timely motion for new trial is filed, “the time for appeal for all parties shall run from the entry of the order denying a new trial.”
In this case no separate order was set forth as required by Fed.R.Civ.P.58 until June 19 and no entry made in accordance with Fed.R.Civ.P.79(a) until June 20. We reject plaintiff’s suggestion that the courtroom minute sheet and docket entry reflecting the substance of the hearing can suffice as meeting the requirements of these rules. See Herrera v. First N. Sav. & Loan Ass’n, 805 F.2d 896, 898-899 (10th Cir.1986) (appeal period computed from entry of order on civil docket); Beaudry Motor Co. v. Abko Properties, Inc., 780 F.2d 751 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 107 S.Ct. 100, 93 L.Ed.2d 51 (1986) (minute order prepared at direction of judge, noted on civil docket, signed by deputy clerk, and mailed to counsel satisfies rules).
This court has long held that when a tolling motion is made and a notice of appeal filed before its determination, a new notice must be filed within the prescribed time measured from the date of the entry of the order disposing of the motion. A.O. Smith Corp. v. Sims Consol., Ltd., 647 F.2d 118, 120 (10th Cir.1981) (emphasis added). See also Stallworth v. Shuler, 758 F.2d 1409, 1410 (11th Cir.1985) (new notice of appeal must be filed after date district court enters order disposing of Rule 59 motion); Trinidad Corp. v. Maru, 781 F.2d 1360, 1362 (9th Cir.1986) (same).
The Supreme Court did not announce a different rule in Acosta, but merely chose the opportunity to state that section 4(a)(4) is a specifically drafted exception to section 4(a)(2), requiring the filing of a new notice of appeal after the entry of a dispositive order. Section 4(a)(4) is not to be construed as permitting an appeal to be taken after announcement of the court’s decision but before the entry of an order.
This case cannot be distinguished factually from Acosta. Plaintiff was twice alerted to the lack of an order denying the Rule 59 motion: once by the notation on the docket following the May 6 hearing that an order would follow, and later by opposing counsel who subsequently drafted the order denying the motion at the court’s request and sent plaintiff’s counsel a copy for her approval. Finally, when this court notified the parties of the potential jurisdictional defect, there remained time for plaintiff to seek in the district court an extension to file the notice of appeal. Fed.R. App.P. 4(a)(5).
DISMISSED. The mandate shall issue forthwith.

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