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:
FIDELITY & DEPOSIT CO. OF MARYLAND v. CITIZENS NAT. BANK OF WACO.
No. 8774.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Feb. 23, 1939.
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge, dissenting.
For original opinion, see 100 F.2d 807.
Albert B. Hall, of Dallas, Tex., for appellant.
H. M. Richey, of Waco, Tex., for appellee.
Before SIBLEY and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges, and DEAVER, District Judge.
PER CURIAM.
We recognize that when the Tax Collector took checks instead of money for taxes that the taxes were not thereby paid until the checks were honored. When he took such checks to this bank which was .also the County Depository he had a right to put those drawn on another bank in a special account for collection. We hold that when collection was made by the bank as the tax collector’s agent the tax covered by such a check stood paid, and the proceeds were known to the bank to be public funds which the Tax Collector was bound to place with the depository, and since they were already in its hands to the credit of the Tax Collector the bank could hold them only as depository. The Tax Collector cannot, as he sought to do, put in his collection account either cash or checks drawn on the depository bank itself. When such checks are presented and honored, or when cash is deposited, the funds being public money are, like the proceeds of collections from other banks, held as such by the depository. By the statute, it can pay the public funds out on the Tax Collector’s checks to no others than treasurers. It may be that there is no breach of depository duty in paying checks known to be for commissions, or other things for which the Tax Collector could pay out cash instead of putting it in the depository. And money mistakenly deposited might be restored. But in all these exceptional cases the facts justifying the payment must be shown, and are not to be assumed. The depository paying checks to others than treasurers must know and be prepared to prove its justification. If there is no justification shown, the depository stands as actively joining the Tax Collector in illegally paying out the public money violating the law under which it acts as depository. The special agreement between the Tax Collector and the bank that he should put not only foreign checks but all tax monies in a collection account to enable him to retain a checking control over it we hold to be illegal, plainly at variance with the depository’s legal duty, and rather aggravating than excusing the illegal payment of his checks to others than treasurers.
It may be that the bank has an ultimate recourse on the Tax Collector personally if he really got the benefit of the misappropriated funds. We do not think this cuts off the Tax Collector’s surety from subrogation to the State’s right against the depository. The depository, as we see it, would not have recourse on the Tax Collector’s surety if it had paid the State, because it participated actively in misapplying the public money. The surety, no doubt, in assuming liability as such, and in fixing the premium therefor, relied on the law which requires the Tax Collector at once to deposit his collections . in the depository, and prohibited them being checked out otherwise than to treasurers. If that law had been observed by the depository' the surety would not have suffered this loss.
Motion for rehearing denied.
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge, dissents.

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