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:
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MEMPHIS FURNITURE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 77-1647.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Argued Oct. 7, 1977.
Decided March 11, 1980.
Elliott Moore, William Stewart, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, N.L.R.B., Collis Suzanne Stocking, Washington, D. C., Raymond A. Jacobson, Director, Region 26, N.L. R.B., Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.
Gordon E. Jackson, Michael R. Forman, Memphis, Tenn., for defendant-appellee.
Before LIVELY, KEITH and MERRITT, Circuit Judges.
ORDER
This case is before the Court on application of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for enforcement of its order issued against Memphis Furniture Manufacturing Company (Company) reported at 232 NLRB 164. The Board found that Respondent engaged in unfair labor practices and had violated §§ 8(a)(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act (Act), 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq. by (1) issuing warnings to employees, Amy Harsch and Vickie Harris, because of their union activities and (2) by interrogating employee, Arthur Presley, about his union activities and discharging him because he filed unfair labor practice charges with the Board. Respondent claims that Presley was a supervisory employee and therefore subject to termination in the Company’s discretion. Respondent seeks review of these two issues along with the question of whether the Board properly denied their post-hearing motions to reopen the record to admit additional evidence. We hold that the decision of the Board is supported by substantial evidence. There was no due process violation when the Board refused to reopen.
Vickie Harris was given a warning for not obtaining permission to leave her station during working hours. The incident that precipitated the warning consisted of leaving her station after the Company secretary had reported to her that someone wished to see her outside the plant. When her supervisor, Boalus, could not be found, she obtained permission from the cutting supervisor, Westbrook, to leave her station. Upon discovery that the person who wished to see her was a union representative she immediately returned to work. Amy Harsch, who had been an employee for twelve years without a reprimand, was issued a warning for allegedly harassing the other women employees. Employee Harsch was an active union supporter and she-distributed union cards in the ladies’ restroom. She and Harris both wore union T-shirts and distributed union literature to Company employees. The record supports the Board’s finding that the two employees were disciplined in violation of § 8(a).
Arthur Presley, who had worked for the Company since 1972, was observed by someone in the Company standing on a street corner near the plant talking with two union representatives. Presley was on vacation leave. When he returned to work the next day, Oseman, the Company’s warehouse manager, questioned him about the incident. Presley filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Company because of the interrogation. Two weeks later Presley was again summoned to Oseman’s office where he was informed that he was discharged because of his union association and because he had filed charges with the Board.
Respondents allege that Arthur Presley, a shipping clerk, was a supervisor and, therefore, under 29 U.S.C.A. § 164, would not come within the “employee” status of the Act as it relates to collective bargaining. Their allegation that Presley is a supervisor rests on several factors: (1) that he is a salaried employee; (2) he participates in the salaried supervisory bonus program; (3) he does not punch a time dock; (4) he is paid for sick or absent days from work; (5) he attends supervisor’s meetings to discuss Company policy; (6) he is not paid for overtime work; and (7) he attends supervisory parties. There is, however, substantial evidence for the Board’s findings that Presley had no power to hire, fire, transfer or assign employees and exercised no managerial discretion or independent judgment. We agree that he was not a supervisory employee.
Accordingly the order of the Board is enforced.

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