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:
ZWEIFEL, TUOHY & CRAGER et al. v. TRANS-STATE OIL CO.
No. 8914.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Nov. 18, 1938.
Seymour Lieberman, of Houston, Tex,, and Henry Zweifel, of Fort Worth, Tex., for appellants. -
L. Sanford Schwing and Charles Rein-hard, both of Houston, Tex., for appellee.
Before SIBLEY, HOLMES, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.
HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
The appellants are attorneys who represented the debtor, the Trans-State Oil Company, in reorganization proceedings under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 207. By this appeal, they seek reversal of an order which denied them any fee for their services payable out of the assets of the debtor’s estate. The opinion of the District Court is reported in Re Trans-State Oil Co., 24 F.Supp. 454, to which reference is made for a further statement of the facts.
The court found that the appellants had performed services to the estate of the reasonable value of between three thousand and five thousand dollars, but that, since the debtor had agreed to pay them ten thousand dollars after the estate should be closed, which was more than the value of their services, it was the duty of the court to decline to make any allowance whatever out of the estate, leaving the attorneys free to pursue the matter otherwise as they saw fit.
The agreement referred to was in the form of a written memorandum, signed for the debtor by its president, and provided that, in consideration of work done in reorganizing the company, the latter agreed to pay said attorneys, besides the money allowed by the court (which would be paid before the creditors were paid), an additional sum of ten thousand dollars, payable after payment of the creditors as set out in the plan.
We concur with the court below that such agreement was not binding on it in this proceeding, and that it had no jurisdiction to determine its validity as an obligation of the debtor; but we think the court erred in declining to allow any compensation to appellants payable out of the assets of the estate. There was no intention on the part of the debtor or its attorneys that the agreed amount of ten thousand dollars should be in lieu of any such allowance by the court. The memorandum expressly provides that this shall be an additional sum, “besides the money allowed by the court, which will be paid before the creditors are paid.”
The recent act of Congress (28 U.S. C.A. § 572a) which prohibits certain agreements fixing fees in reorganization proceedings provides, in case of violation, for the imposition of severe penalties by fine or imprisonment, or both; but it does not undertake to forfeit a reasonable compensation, actually earned, for the services.
The court below neither approved nor disapproved the agreement for additional compensation, but assumed that it was binding on the debtor. We also withhold approval or disapproval, as beyond our jurisdiction on this appeal, but we do not find it necessary to assume that the agreement is binding on the debtor. As there was no waiver of compensation out of the assets of the estate, and the payment of the ten thousand dollars is to some extent contingent, we think a reasonable fee should be allowed appellants, expressly withholding any decision as to the effect of the agreement, other than that it does not preclude such reasonable allowance at this time out of the assets of the estate.
The order of the District Court is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

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: 99