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:
WAUGH et al. v. SUBURBAN CLUB GINGER ALE CO. et al.
No. 9575.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.
Argued Jan. 21, 1948.
Decided April 26, 1948.
Mr. Leonard S. Melrod, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.
Mr. Wilbert Mclnerney, of Washington, D. C., for appellees.
Before EDGERTON, CLARK, and WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justices.
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
The plaintiff appeals from a judgment on a directed verdict for the defendant in an action for personal injuries. Appellant, a boy of 13 or 14, was riding a bicycle that collided with appellee’s truck. Tbe truck had been standing at a street intersection, only about five feet from the right-hand curb, waiting for a green light. Appellant had ridden up from behind, entered the-space between the standing truck and the curb, and stopped to wait beside the truck’s right rear wheel. He was riding “next to the curb” but the space was so narrow that he was also close to the truck; in fact he put his left hand on it. When the light changed the truck started. Appellant then put his hand back on the handlebar and started his bicycle. The collision occurred, in the street intersection, because (1) the truck made a right turn from its position near the right curb and (2) appellant, from' his position even nearer the right curb, did not make a right turn but went straight ahead into the intersection. When he saw the truck turning he attempted to turn, but too late.
Appellant’s theory is that “the driver of the truck was negligent in making a sharp, sudden turn, in failing to keep a proper lookout, and failing to give a warning or signal of his intention to make a right turn.”'
Ordinarily a vehicle about to make a right turn is not and need not be less-than five feet from the curb. As the truck driver expressed it, “the reason he wasn’t exactly up against the curb was that if he was, he would not have been able to proceed for the right hand turn — he would have run over the curb.” No doubt there was, as appellant said, “space enough to the right of the truck that he could drive his-bicycle in without any trouble.” But getting out of such a space without trouble is-another matter. For a bicyclist to put himself in a position so near a curb on the right, a truck on the left, and an intersection, ahead, and then ride straight forward without waiting to see whether the truck, which, may properly turn right, will do so, is plainly dangerous. Such a course is not so common that reasonable drivers anticipate it, and devise and take special precautions-against it, before making a “sharp, sudden”' turn to the right. In other words appellee’s. driver was not negligent m making the turn without special precautions.
If the driver failed to keep a proper lookout and to give a proper signal, he negligently endangered anyone in a position to benefit by those ordinary precautions. But appellant was not in a position to benefit by them. There is no evidence that a reasonable and proper lookout would have disclosed to the driver of the truck the fact that a boy had ridden a bicycle into the narrow space between the right rear wheel of the truck and the curb. There is no evidence that a reasonable and proper signal, by hand or light or both, of the driver’s intention to turn, could have been seen by a person in appellant’s position. Therefore the precautions the driver is said to have omitted would not have enabled either him or the appellant to avoid the accident. It follows that appellee is not responsible for the accident. The reason may be expressed in terms either of negligence or of causation. The driver’s alleged omissions (a) added nothing to appellant’s danger and therefore were not negligent toward appellant, and (b) did not cause his injuries.
In these circumstances the driver’s possible incompetence to drive is immaterial, and it is therefore immaterial that he had no District of Columbia license. Moreover, he had a North Carolina license. Appellant rightly makes no point of the fact that some trucks have signaling devices visible from the relative position in which appellant was. For there is no evidence that appellee’s truck had such a device or that operating it without one was negligent.
The court’s action in directing a verdict for appellee was therefore correct. We need not consider whether a boy of appellant’s age and capacity was, as an adult would have been, plainly negligent in staking his safety on the chance that a truck standing near a right-hand curb would not make a right turn at an intersection.
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