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:
Willis Arthur TRIMIER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 16890.
United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.
Oct. 19, 1961.
Before JOHNSEN, Chief Judge, and MATTHES, Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM.
Appellant challenges the certificate of the trial court that his attempt to appeal is without merit and so not taken in good faith, and he asks leave from us to prosecute the appeal in forma pauperis. The appeal is from an order denying, without a hearing, his motion under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, to have his sentence vacated.
Appellant had pleaded guilty to having, as a person previously convicted of a crime of violence, transported a firearm in interstate commerce, thereby violating 15 U.S.C.A. § 902(e). A sentence of five years’ imprisonment was imposed upon him.
His motion under § 2255 alleges that he had pleaded guilty because of representations to him that he would not be given a sentence of more than three years. He does not charge that the representations were made by the United States Attorney, or that they purported to be held out to him as resting in any other way on some contact with, or expression by, the court.
What he predicates his motion on were statements which he says were made to him by a deputy marshal, and by his court-appointed attorney. He alleges that the deputy marshal told him: “The maximum sentence on this charge is five years, but nobody ever gets over three, and I can personally promise you that you won’t get over three years.” His attorney is claimed to have stated: “There’s nothing I can do, because the Government has an open-and-shut case against you; because they caught you with a pistol and you have a record, you will be convicted. I will ask for leniency, and because you didn’t commit any crime of violence or anything of that sort, you won’t get any more than three years.”
If these statements were made, they cannot, on the contents of appellant’s motion, be said to have constituted or to be capable of being regarded, in their source, circumstances, and form, as anything except expressions of personal views and opinions. No setting is shown that could in any way cause them to be coercive. Further, in their lack of any actual or purported official basis, either judicial or prosecutional, the statements, and whatever reliance appellant may have chosen to place on them, did not constitute a legal taking-of-advantage or processive unfairness against appellant, requiring his conviction and sentence to be set aside.
To clear the records of the pending appeal, it will be permitted to be docketed without payment of fee, and will then be dismissed as frivolous.
Appeal dismissed.

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