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:
INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING CO., Inc., a corporation, and Rudolfo Jacuzzi, an individual, Appellants, v. LANDON, INC., a corporation, Appellee.
No. 19067.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Feb. 14, 1964.
Naylor & Neal, James M. Naylor, and Frank A. Neal, San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.
Mellin, Hanscom & Hursh, Oscar A. Mellin, and Jack E. Hursh, San Francisco, Cal., Anderson & McMillan and Carl Anderson, Burlingame, Cal., for appellee.
Before BARNES, HAMLIN and MERRILL, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
We have heretofore ordered the “Application for leave to file petition for a writ of mandamus,” and “Petition for writ of mandamus,” (in the matter entitled “International Manufacturing Co., Inc., a corporation, and Rudolfo Jacuzzi, an individual v. The Honorable George B. Harris, Judge, etc.,” which application for mandamus was heretofore denied by this court after a motion to set aside the-existing order was denied in the court below) as opening briefs on this expedited appeal from the interlocutory order of November 19, 1963, refusing to dissolve an injunction in a patent infringement action. The district court on July 2, 1963 had found appellee’s two patents valid and infringed, and had granted injunctive relief to appellee to make its order effective. This order had become final, because not appealed.
This court is of the opinion:
(a) The district court had the authority to grant the injunctive relief ordered on July 2, 1963 which became final because no appeal was taken. “The infinite variety of situations in which a court of equity may be called upon for interlocutory injunctive relief requires that the court have considerable discretion in fashioning such relief.” Tanner Motor Livery, Limited v. Avis, Inc., 9 Cir., 1963, 316 F.2d 804, 809; 7 Moore, Par. 62.05. The court’s action was neither arbitrary nor unlimited. Zenith Carburetor Co. v. Stromberg Motor Devices Co., 7 Cir., 1921, 270 F. 421, cert. den. 249 U.S. 605, 39 S.Ct. 288, 63 L.Ed. 798.
(b) The appellants cannot collaterally attack the order of July 2, 1963, now final, by appealing from the order of November 19, 1963. O. F. Nelson & Co., Ltd. v. United States, 9 Cir., 1948, 169 F.2d 833. A judgment or decree of this court, if appealable, is, after no appeal is taken, conclusive upon the parties. “If the District Court had erred in dealing, ■or in failing to deal, with any issue ■* * * involved, the remedy was by appeal and no appeal was taken.” Nelson, supra.
(c) There was no “merger” of the July 2, 1963 and the November 19, 1963 orders. Appellants’ reliance on Moore’s commentary on the U. S. Judicial Code is misplaced. The rule of law there enunciated permits a reviewing court, on one appeal, to consider “other nonappealable orders.”
(d) There was no abuse of discretion in fixing the amount of the bond at $40,000, so as to' enable appellants to obtain relief from the restraining order issued against appellants in support of the district court’s jurisdiction, if they desired.
(e) The attempt to charge ap-pellee with rain damage to appellants’ materials because of appellants’ failure to protect property wholly within appellants’ care and control is without merit. Appellants were not restrained or prevented in any manner from protecting their property from rain damage.
Finding no merit in appellants’ various points on appeal, we affirm the action and order of the district court, and dismiss the appeal therefrom.
. To hold that the motion to modify the July 2, 1963 order, filed on August 7, 1963, after the time to appeal from the July 2, 1963 order had expired on August 2, 1963, somehow breathed new life into the July 2, 1963 order and permitted an appeal from the “merged” orders, would render any restrictive rules on the time within which appeals must be taken meaningless. (Cf. Rule 73, Fed.Rules Civ. Proc.)

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