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:
In the Matter of X-CEL, INC., d/b/a Sizzler Family Steak House, Debtor-Appellant.
No. 87-1816.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted June 29, 1987.
Decided July 9, 1987.
Louis W. Levit, Levit & Mason, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for debtor-appellant.
David N. Nissner, Schwart, Cooper, Colb, Gaynor, David P. Leibowitz, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
Before POSNER, FLAUM, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The bankruptcy court allowed a claim against X-Cel, Inc., filed by A. Eicoff & Co., a creditor. The district court affirmed most of the bankruptcy court’s decision but remanded for a recalculation of interest. 75 B.R. 781. Within 10 days Eicoff filed a motion for rehearing under Bankruptcy Rule 8015. On the 29th day after the entry of the judgment, before the district court had acted on Eicoff s motion for rehearing, X-Cel filed a notice of appeal. At our request the parties filed memoranda concerning the effect on our jurisdiction of the partial remand, see In re Riggsby, 745 F.2d 1153 (7th Cir.1984), and the motion for rehearing, see Charles v. Daley, 799 F.2d 343, 347 (7th Cir.1986).
Rule 8015 permits a disappointed litigant to seek rehearing within 10 days but omits language, comparable to that in Fed.R. App.P. 4(a)(4), suspending the finality of the order while the district court acts on the request. This does not matter, however. United States v. Dieter, 429 U.S. 6, 97 S.Ct. 18, 50 L.Ed.2d 8 (1976), and United States v. Healy, 376 U.S. 75, 84 S.Ct. 553, 11 L.Ed.2d 527 (1964), hold that timely requests for rehearing automatically suspend the finality of the order (and therefore make an immediate appeal impossible) even if no rule provides for this. As the Court observed in Dieter, the district court’s action on a motion for rehearing may eliminate the need for an appeal or clarify the basis of the district court’s action. An appeal while the request for rehearing is pending may be premature, as it will present for appellate review a judgment that may no longer represent the district court’s conclusions. Worse, if the motion for rehearing does not suspend the finality of the judgment, the losing party must protect itself by filing an appeal if the court has not acted on the motion within the time limit for appeal; that appeal will deprive the district court of jurisdiction and prevent it from correcting its judgment. So to ensure that the district court has the power to correct its judgment, and that the court of appeals reviews only the district judge’s ultimate conclusions, it is necessary to hold that a timely motion to reconsider makes the judgment non-appealable. The appeal lies only from the order disposing of the request for reconsideration.
What was true in Dieter and Healy is true here as well. This case illustrates both the operation and the wisdom of Dieter and Healy. After X-Cel filed its notice of appeal, the district court granted rehearing and affirmed the bankruptcy court in full. It could not have done this if the notice of appeal transferred jurisdiction to this court, and we would have been left to review a decision the district court believes incorrect.
The only obstacle to concluding that a motion under Rule 8015 suspends the finality of the judgment is the Advisory Committee’s comment that “[t]he filing of a motion for rehearing does not toll the time for taking an appeal to the court of appeals”. The Advisory Committee did not cite any authority for this proposition. A court of appeals has jurisdiction only if the judgment is final, and if a motion for rehearing suspends that finality appeal is impossible. Part of the comment is directed to the way Rule 8015 differs from Fed. R.App.P. 4(a)(4), which not only makes the judgment non-final but also vitiates any earlier notice of appeal. The Advisory Committee may have wanted to ensure that a premature notice of appeal under Rule 8015 would take effect once the district court entered a judgment. Cf. Rule 4(a)(2), which provides for this when the notice is filed after announcement of a judgment but before its entry. See also United States v. Hansen, 795 F.2d 35, 37-38 (7th Cir.1986).
The amendment to Rule 8015 that becomes effective August 1, 1987, suggests something along these lines. The amendment adds the sentence: “If a timely motion for rehearing is filed, the time for appeal to the court of appeals ... shall run from the entry of the order denying rehearing or the entry of a subsequent judgment.” The Advisory Committee’s note to this revision states that the language “ciar-ifies the effect of the filing of a timely motion for rehearing.” 114 F.R.D. 374 (1987). “Clarifies” rather than “reverses” is the appropriate word. Unless a motion under Rule 8015 suspends the finality of the judgment, the authorization to file the motion is hot air — because the losing party must file a protective notice of appeal that will deprive the district judge of the power to act on the motion. X-Cel was compelled to file such a notice. We do not read the current version of Rule 8015 as self-defeating. Dieter establishes that an authorized motion for rehearing suspends the finality of the judgment. This appeal, filed while the motion for rehearing was pending, is premature.
X-Cel has not asked us to treat its notice of appeal as a challenge to the district court’s order on rehearing, so we need not decide whether that would be appropriate. The appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

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