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:
CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Lana J. ROSE, Appellee.
No. 10151.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
Jan. 14, 1969.
William F. Dressél, Denver, Colo. (Wesley H. Doan, of Yegge, Hall, Treece & Evans, Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellant.
Peter Watson, of Burnett, Watson & Horan, Denver, Colo., for appellee.
Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges.
HILL, Circuit Judge.
This diversity suit was brought in the District Court for the District of Colorado to recover the proceeds of an accident insurance policy insuring, among other risks, against the loss of the sight of both eyes of the insured. Recovery was allowed and this appeal followed.
The now deceased insured, who was the husband of appellee, on October 15, 1965, purchased the accident insurance policy from appellant company. The policy provided for payment of the sum of $10,000 in the event of the loss of “sight in both eyes” resulting from injury to the insured if such loss of sight occurred within one hundred days from the date of the injury. The word “loss” as used in the policy with reference to the eyes was defined therein as “the irrecoverable loss of the entire sight thereof.”
On October 24, 1965, the insured fell from a ladder at his place of employment and suffered a severe injury to his head. The injury rendered him unconscious and he remained in that condition from the time of the injury until he died on May 16, 1966. Immediately after the injury he was taken to the emergency room of a Denver hospital. The doctor who first examined him there testified that he was unconscious, his pupils were dilated and they would not react to light. Soon thereafter another doctor performed an operation upon the right side of his head during which a “flap of skull was turned down, exposing the brain which actually was under so much pressure that it actually extruded through the incision. There was a large amount of blood which was removed; a large clot, and the brain itself was quite contused and hemorrhagic appearing.” During the operation nearly all of the temporal lobe on the right side was removed in an attempt to relieve the pressure upon the brain. The limited extent of this brain surgery did not afford the doctors an opportunity to evaluate or view the occipital area of the brain. One of the attending doctors testified that at no time were the attending doctors able to determine if there was any injury to the optic globes or optic mechanical system. This doctor also testified that after the operation the eyes of the insured did react somewhat to light which indicated that the optic nerve was partially intact, but from the overall condition the doctor was unable to determine if the insured could or could not make use of his optic system. In conclusion though, the doctor testified that the insured “never indicated to me that he used it.”
Two neurosurgeons examined the insured during December, 1965, which was within the one hundred days provided in the policy, and both testified at the trial. In summary, both doctors testified that they found the insured in an unconscious or semi-unconscious state, that he had suffered extensive brain damage with no hope of recovering his normal brain functions, that he could not see, and that he would not recover to the point where he could ever see.
From the foregoing undisputed facts the trial judge found, as a matter of law, that the policy of insurance was not ambiguous; that it simply provided for payment of the face amount for the irrecoverable loss of sight by accident without defining the cause of the loss of sight, except by accident. The court concluded “that because of the damage to the brain occasioned by the accident the insured was unable to see at any time from the accident until his death.” We agree with the trial court.
Appellant argues here, as it did before the trial judge, that the language of the policy means the irrecoverable loss of the entire sight caused by damage to the optic system itself. Admittedly, the insured did not suffer any direct injury to his optic system, at least as far as the evidence shows. But, to adopt appellant’s argument we would have to read into the clear language of the policy a limitation of the risk that simply is not now a part of the policy. The words “irrecoverable loss of the sight of both eyes” without further limitation mean precisely what they say, the loss of sight caused by accidental means without any further limitation.
As we have many times stated, the findings of fact of the trial judge will not be disturbed unless we believe them to be clearly erroneous and without evidentiary support. The findings here are supported by competent expert testimony. Further, as we have indicated, the interpretation of the material parts of the contract of insurance made by the trial judge is without question correct.
Affirmed.
. E.g., Hill v. Field, 384 F.2d 829 (10th Cir. 1967); United States Fidelity & Guar. Co. v. Oklahoma, 383 F.2d 417 (10th Cir. 1967); Skinner v. Parnell, 257 F.2d 345 (10th Cir. 1958.)

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: 1