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:
Connie Mack DALRYMPLE, Appellant, v. Lawrence E. WILSON, Warden, San Quentin Prison, Appellee.
No. 20652.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Sept. 15, 1966.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 24, 1966.
Connie Mack Dalrymple, in pro. per.
Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen. of Cal., Robt. R. Granucci, Deputy Atty. Gen., Jennifer L. Bain, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.
Before JERTBERG and ELY, Circuit Judges, and FOLEY, District Judge.
PER CURIAM:
Appellant, a prisoner of the State of California, incarcerated in the State Prison at San Quentin, California, filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Southern Division. Such court had jurisdiction to entertain a petition for writ of habeas corpus by a State prisoner under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a).
Appellant was convicted of second degree murder in violation of California Penal Code Section 187, by the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles, following trial to the Court sitting without a jury, a jury having been properly waived, and was sentenced on September 29, 1961, to State Prison for the term prescribed by law. Appellant was represented by the Los Angeles Public Defender’s Office throughout the trial proceedings, including preliminary examination. He filed no appeal from the judgment of conviction.
Appellant filed no proceedings in any courts of the State of California for transcript of proceedings of his trial, but on May 7, 1965, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court of California, alleging substantially the same facts which are presented in the petition filed with the District Court. The Supreme Court of California denied appellant’s petition without a hearing.
Appellant alleges in his petition two grounds for his release from custody. First, that incriminating statements were elicited from him by law enforcement officers before he was advised of his right to remain silent and his right to counsel, and that such statements were entered into evidence against him at his trial. Appellant makes no claim that the incriminating statements made by him were other than voluntary, and contends that his situation is within the rule announced in Escobedo v. State of Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L.Ed.2d 977 (1964), and that such rule should be applied retroactively. It is to be noted that on June 20, 1966, in Johnson and Cassidy v. State of New Jersey, 384 U.S. 719, 86 S.Ct. 1772, 16 L.Ed.2d 882, the Supreme Court decided that the rule in Escobedo concerning the right to counsel upon request therefor is to operate retroactively only as to those cases in which the trial began after June 22, 1964, the date of that decision. On June 13, 1966, in Miranda v. State of Arizona, and three companion cases, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694, the Supreme Court prescribed requirements that a prisoner be informed of his right to counsel and his right to remain silent. It is held, however, that the requirements were not applicable, retroactively, prior to the date of the Miranda decision. Johnson v. State of New Jersey, supra. Appellant’s conviction became final almost three years prior to the decision in Escobedo, and nearly five years before the guidelines of Miranda were established.
The second ground urged by appellant is that he was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel. He alleges, generally, that his counsel did not adequately prepare for trial, did not adequately consult with him, failed to call certain witnesses, failed to object to certain statements made by the prosecutor, and imparted confidential information received from appellant to the prosecutor. The allegations are mostly conclusionary. We find nothing in the record to indicate that appellant had a defense to the charges which counsel failed to present, or that appellant was deprived of a fair trial because of the ineffective assistance of counsel. A conviction may not be set aside on the ground of the ineffective assistance of counsel unless trial counsel is “so incompetent or inefficient as to make the trial a farce or a mockery of justice.” Peek v. United States, 321 F.2d 934, 5 A.L.R.3d 802 (9th Cir. 1963). E. g., Reid v. United States, 334 F.2d 915 (9th Cir. 1964); Bouchard v. United States, 344 F.2d 872 (9th Cir. 1965); Thomas v. United States, decided July 19, 1966, 363 F.2d 849 (9th Cir. 1966).
The District Court might have permitted amendment and determined upon the basis of more specific allegations, if chosen to be made, the question of whether or not an evidentiary hearing was required on the issue of adequate representation. Since this was not done, and since appellant’s allegations were so general as to be inadequate, we must affirm. See Brubaker v. Dixon, 310 F.2d 30 (9th Cir. 1962); Wright v. Dickson, 336 F.2d 878 (9th Cir. 1964); Hale v. Wilson, decided August 10, 1966, 364 F.2d 906 (9th Cir. 1966).
The order appealed from 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