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:
Edward Thomas VAN DUSEN, Appellant, v. John C. TAYLOR, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, Appellee.
No. 6970.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
June 29, 1962.
Donald B. Clark, Wichita, Kan., for appellant.
R. Stanley Ditus, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Newell A. George, U. 'S. Atty., was with him on the brief), for appellee.
Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and HILL, Circuit Judges.
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Van Dusen brought habeas corpus alleging that the Board of Parole unlawfully revoked his conditional release from Leavenworth penitentiary by acting arbitrarily and capriciously and by denying him the right of representation by counsel.
The 10 and %-year term to which Van Dusen was sentenced by the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan will not expire until November 3, 1964. The Certificate of Mandatory Release, issued on November 24, 1960, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 4163 and 4164 because of an earned good-time allowance of 1,406 days, directed him to report to the Federal Probation Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Upon his release he immediately was taken into state custody by Kansas officers acting under an Alabama detainer. The validity of the Alabama process was denied in a Kansas state court proceeding. Van Dusen was released pending appeal on a recognizance bond. He then reported to the Federal Probation Office at Kansas City, Kansas. The officer in charge told Van Dusen that his case was transferred to Kansas during the pendency of the state litigation and that he should not leave Kansas without permission. By his own acts Van Dusen placed himself under the supervision of the Federal Probation Office for Kansas and he may not now say that its order forbidding departure from Kansas without permission was unauthorized.
Van Dusen admittedly went from Kansas to Oklahoma without advising the Kansas City probation office but he asserts that in so doing he had no intent to violate his conditional release. The question of whether such action justified revocation of the conditional release was for determination by the Board in the exercise of the discretion granted to it. We said in Freedman v. Looney, 10 Cir., 210 F.2d 56, 57, that revocation upon evidence of a violation of a conditional release is not an abuse of discretion. The same rule applies when the revocation is based on an admitted violation of an order of a probation officer to whose jurisdiction the parolee has voluntarily submitted.
The question of the right of one reimprisoned under a warrant charging violation of a conditional release to representation by counsel at a revocation hearing has produced a contrariety of judicial views. We decline to make a choice between the conflicting decisions as the issue was not presented to the trial court and the record does not disclose the facts pertaining to the revocation hearing. The issue may not be raised for the first time on appeal. Additionally, we are advised that the Board of Parole has adopted a new rule on representation by counsel at revocation hearings and we do not know what effect, if any, this might have on the rights of Van Dusen. Our disposition of this appeal shall not be taken as any ruling on the right of Van Dusen to representation by counsel at the revocation hearing.
Affirmed.
. See 18 U.S.C. § 4207; Zerbst v. Kidwell, 304 U.S. 359, 362, 58 S.Ct. 872, 82 L.Ed. 1399; Brown v. Taylor, 10 Cir., 287 F.2d 334, 335, certiorari denied 366 U.S. 970, 81 S.Ct. 1933, 6 L.Ed.2d 1259.
. Washington v. Hagan, 3 Cir., 287 F.2d 332, 333-334, certiorari denied 366 U.S. 970, 81 S.Ct. 1934, 6 L.Ed.2d 1259, denies the right and Robbins v. Reed, 108 U.S.App.D.C. 51, 269 F.2d 242, affirms the right. See also Hiatt v. Compagna, 5 Cir., 178 F.2d 42, affirmed by an equally divided court, 340 U.S. 880, 71 S.Ct. 192 95 L.Ed. 636.
. Craig v. Hunter, 10 Cir., 167 F.2d 721, 722; Evans v. Hunter, 10 Cir., 162 F.2d 800, 802, certiorari denied 332 U.S. 818, 68 S.Ct. 144, 92 L.Ed. 395.
. In the article by Professor Kadish, The Advocate and the Expert — Counsel in the Peno-Correctional Process, 45 Minn.L. Rev. 803, 822, it is reported that the government in opposing certiorari in Washington v. Hagan, supra, argued that the changed rules of the Board deprived the representation issue of any substantial importance.

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