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:
Ruth D. CORLEY et al., Appellants v. LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY OF TENNESSEE, a corporation, Appellee.
No. 16270.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 11, 1961.
Decided Nov. 2, 1961.
Mr. Charles A. Iovino, Jr., Washington, D. C., submitted on the brief for appellants.
Mr. Richard W. Galiher, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. William E. Stewart, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, submitted on the brief for appellee.
Before Wilbur K. Miller, Chief Judge, and WASHINGTON and BURGER, Circuit Judges.
..... ,, , ,TT _ „„ „ T 1 WILBUR K. MILLER, Chief Judge.
Ruth Corley and her husband sued John E. Lockhart and Life and Casualty Insurance Company, his employer, to recover for personal injuries and property damage sustained when Lockhart’s automobile collided with the Corley car on Friday, March 15, 1957, at the intersection of 7th and L Streets, S. E., in the District of Columbia.
On the theory that Lockhart was not acting within the scope of his employment, the company moved for summary judgment. After considering depositions and affidavits, the trial court made findings of fact that at the time of the accident Lockhart was operating his own automobile, was not then in the employ of the insurance company, and therefore was fot gating the automobile as its agent, servant or employee, but was on his own personal business. Accordingly, summary judgment was granted to the insurance company and this appeal foll°we^-
The action against Lockhart, who has been adjudicated a bankrupt, is not involved here. The sole question is, was a genuine issue of material fact raised as to whether Lockhart was acting within the scope of his employment when the accident happened ?
It appears from the depositions and affidavits that, at the time of the aecident, Lockhart was an insurance salesman employed by the company at a salary of $35.00 per week plus commissions, with an allowance of $3.50 per week toward the expense of operating his own car in covering the territory in which he collected premiums. The scene of the. accident was not within the area assigned to him. .It appeared that he usually devoted only four days a week to company business, and ordinarily did not choose to work on Friday. His affidavit stated he was not engaged in any activity on behalf of the-company on the Friday when the accident occurred, but had visited his mother-in-law’s home and was on the way from there to see his brother-in-law at a gas station where the latter was employed, with the intention of buying tires for his car. His deposition was to the same effect. An affidavit of the company manager stated the accident happened outside Lockhart’s “debit area,” that is, his assigned territory, and “upon information and belief” concluded Lockhart was 'not acting within the scope of. his employment at the time of the collision.
The affidavit of an attorney for the Corleys said he was present at a hearing ■in the Corporation Counsel’s office when Lockhart made certain statements in connection with his activities on the date of the accident, March 15, 1957, and heard Lockhart say
“ * * * that just prior to the accident he had delivered an insurance policy and he was going to acquire new tires for his car at which time he expected to make a sale of an insurance policy to a person at the service station where he intended to buy the tires, and that when he had finished with this he had another prospect to call upon.”
The affidavit which recited these alleged admissions was enough to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether he was acting within the scope of his employment, if it “set forth such facts as would be admissible in evidence,” as required by Rule 56(e), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S. C.A. We think the rule does not require an unequivocal ruling that the evidence suggested in this particular affidavit would be admissible at the trial as a condition precedent to holding the affidavit raises a genuine issue. In many cases, it is possible to say without qualification that evidence recited in an affidavit under Rule 56(e) would or would not be admissible; but it is not so here. Admissibility of testimony sometimes depends upon the form in which it is offered, the background which is laid for it, and perhaps-on other factors as well.
It is therefore possible, and perhaps probable, that Lockhart’s alleged admissions out of court will be admissible. In the particular circumstances here involved, this is sufficient to defeat the motion for summary judgment, because courts are inclined to hold the movant to a strict demonstration that no genuine issue exists.
It is argued for the company that Lockhart’s statements at the Corporation Counsel’s office were not a part of the res gestae, and were therefore clearly inadmissible. That the statements were not a part of the res gestae is not conclusive. At a trial, the District Court must resolve the question of admissibility, not only on the basis of the form in which the testimony is offered and the background which is shown, but also in the light of our prior decisions, such as the Murphy Auto Parts case ***and Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, etc. v. Tuller.
It is also argued by appellee that Lock-hart’s admissions constituted “the alleged statement .of a claimed agent standing alone, offered for the purpose of proving agency,” and so were inadmissible under the principle that agency cannot be proved by the declarations of the person whose agency is sought to be established.
The fact that Lockhart was an agent of the company was otherwise amply established and indeed admitted; so, testimony concerning his statements before the Corporation Counsel would not be offered to establish agency, but rather to show that at the time in question he was acting for his principal, within the scope of his employment. The question whether he was or was not so acting is quite different from the question whether agency existed at all.
In our view, a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Lockhart was acting within the scope of his employment was raised by the affidavit which set forth his alleged statements at the Corporation Counsel’s office. For that reason summary judgment should not have been granted to the insurance company.
Reversed and remanded.
. Murphy Auto Parts Co., Inc. v. Ball, 101 U.S.App.D.C. 416, 249 F.2d 508 (1957), cert. denied 355 U.S. 932, 78 S.Ct. 413, 2 L.Ed.2d 415 (1958).
. 110 U.S.App.D.C. 282, 292 F.2d 775 (1961).

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