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:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frank C. MAROLDA, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 80-1641.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted April 16, 1981.
Decided June 15, 1981.
Allen Ruby, Morgan, Ruby, Teter, Schofield, Franich, Bouchier & Fredkin, San Jose, Cal., for defendant-appellant.
Peter D. Isakoff, Atty., Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., argued for plaintiff-appellee; William C. Bryson, Atty., Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief.
Before WRIGHT and CANBY, Circuit Judges, and TAKASUGI, District Judge.
Of the Central District of California.
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
I
Marolda was convicted after trial by jury of embezzling from a labor union, 29 U.S.C. § 501(c). On his first appeal, he argued that: (1) the definition of the offense in instructions to the jury excluded statutory elements; (2) there was a prejudicial variance between the offense as set forth in the indictment and as defined in the instructions; and (3) the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction.
We reversed, addressing only the second issue:
We need not resolve the question of the statutory elements here because a prejudicial variance between the offense as charged in the indictment and that defined by the court’s instructions requires reversal. Should the government choose to retry Marolda, it will have to prove the offense as charged in the indictment.
United States v. Marolda, 615 F.2d 867, 870 (9th Cir. 1980).
One element found in the indictment and omitted from the instructions was that Marolda used a gasoline credit card “without benefit to [the Union].” Id. at 868 n.2. Our opinion made no mention of Marolda’s sufficiency of the evidence argument.
When the case returned to district court, Marolda moved to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds, contending there had been insufficient evidence to prove an absence of union benefit. The court denied the motion for two reasons. First, it held that, because the conviction had been reversed for . trial error but not for evidentiary insufficiency, retrial would not subject Marolda to double jeopardy. Second, there had been sufficient evidence from which the jury could have inferred an absence of union benefit.
II
Marolda argues, and the government concedes, that, if the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction at the first trial, double jeopardy bars retrial. See Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 98 S.Ct. 2141, 57 L.Ed.2d 1 (1978); United States v. Bodey, 607 F.2d 265 (9th Cir. 1979). The “government must present sufficient evidence the first time to get a second chance.” Id. at 268.
This is not a case in which the trial error leading to reversal may have prejudiced the prosecution. Cf. United States v. Harmon, 632 F.2d 812 (9th Cir. 1980) (per curiam) (reversal for erroneous admission of evidence). The government does not argue that additional evidence would have been presented, or that different trial strategy would have been pursued, had reversible error not been committed.
III
The law of the case is that the government had to prove lack of union benefit at the first trial. 615 F.2d at 870-72.
In testing for sufficiency of the evidence, the question is whether, “after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2789, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). A “mere modicum” of evidence, making the existence of an element of the crime slightly more probable than it would be without the evidence, by itself is not sufficient. Id. at 320, 99 S.Ct. at 2790.
Marolda was installed as the president of a newly formed local in October 1975. There was evidence that the executive board adopted a policy of providing a fixed, monthly automobile allowance to its officers, and terminated the practice of charging purchases on credit cards.
Marolda continued to use his credit card to purchase gasoline for approximately two years. During this time, he used the card to purchase gas for his wife’s and his brother’s cars, as well as his own. On several occasions he filled two tanks of gas in one day, and in one instance filled three tanks in two days.
Executive board members testified that Marolda used his wife’s and brother’s cars on union business when his car was being repaired. They stated that he took many long trips on union business. Their testimony was not contradicted or impeached.
After reviewing the entire record, we find no direct evidence that Marolda purchased gas for non-union purposes. Nor, in light of all the evidence, could this rationally be inferred beyond a reasonable doubt. We conclude that the evidence was insufficient. The motion to dismiss should have been granted.
REVERSED.

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