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:
INDEMNITY INS. CO. OF NORTH AMERICA et al. v. LEVERING.
No. 6797.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
June 21, 1932.
Hartley F. Peart, or San Francisco, Cal., and Gallaher & Ozias, of Fresno, Cal. (Russel Shearer, of San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for appellant Indemnity Ins. Co.
Everts, Ewing, Wild & Everts, of Fresno, Cal., for appellants Vogel, Say, Ross, and Valley Holding Co.
Young & Hudson and Bert F. Rabino-witz, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant Crowell.
Bicksler, Smith, Parke & Catlin, Hiram E. Booth, Martin M. Levering, and Henry Trowbridge, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.
Before WILBUR and SAWTELLE, Circuit Judges, and NORCROSS, District Judge.
WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
This is the second appeal in this action. The opinion in the first appeal is reported in (C. C. A.) 50 F.(2d) 151. The order of the court was a simple reversal of the judgment, but, in .conformity with the practice in this circuit, the formal reversal was followed by a mandate to the trial court in the usual form directing it to proceed with the matter in conformity with the decision of this court. The action is one at law. A jury was waived upon the former trial, and special findings wore made by the court and judgment thereon rendered in favor of the present appellants. On the previous appeal the sole question presented was as to the effect of certain executed parol agreements shown by nneon-tradicted evidence to have been entered into by Levering. The trial court was of the view that such agreements were not binding upon Levering, and that consequently his payment to those who had purchased stock from him was voluntary and ho could not claim that such payment constituted a loss or damage recoverable against the present appellants who had executed bonds to protect him against loss. After the mandate of this court had been filed in the lower court the present appellants moved for a new trial of the issues. The trial court denied this motion, concluding that, upon the facts and the law as established by the findings of the trial court and the conclusion of this court as to the binding character of Levering’s agreement to reimburse his vendees, the amount for which Levering was entitled to judgment was readily ascertainable from the facts fonnd by the trial court upon the first trial and the law of the case as established by this court ou appeal, from the judgment rendered therein. Judgment was accordingly entered in favor of- the appellee aggregating $55,-049.60 without a retrial of the case, over the objection of the defendants in the adtion.
• This court has no power to order a judgment to be entered in an action at law' where there are issues of fact to "be deter-' mined by a jury or upon stipulation'to that effect by the judge. The Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; Slocum v. N. Y. Life Ins. Co., 228 U. S. 364, 33 S. Ct. 523, 57 L. Ed. 879, Ann. Cas. 1914D, 1029; Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & W. R. R. Co., 229 U. S. 146, 33 S. Ct. 648, 57 L. Ed; 1125, Ann. Cas. 1914C, 153; Upon reversal; this court should ordinarily order a new trial,, and the effect of the mandate of the court upon the foriher appeal Vas to so direcL. Exchange Mutual Life Ins., Co. v. Warsaw-Wilkinson Co. (C. C. A.) 185 F. 487. It'appears that in the Third circuit' a simple reversal without further direction is considered to be a denial of a. right tó proceed further in the lower court. See Fidelity Title & Trust Co. v. Dubois Elec. Co., 253 U. S. 212, 213, 40 S. Ct. 514, 64 L. Ed. 865, reversing Du Bois Electric Co. v. Pancoast’s Adm’r (C. C. A.) 253 F. 987; Myers v. Pittsburgh Coal Co., 233 U. S. 184, 34, S. Ct. 559, 58 L. Ed. 906, reversing (C. C. A.). 203 F. 221. In the Second circuit it seems to be assumed that the order “Judgment reversed” implies a new trial. See Eastman Kodak Co. v. Blackmore (C. C. A.) 277 F. 694, 699, 701, where it was said, on page 699: “As we have no power to dismiss the complaint, and á new trial must be ordered,' in accordance with Slocum v. New York Life Ins. Co., 228 U. S. 364, 33 S. Ct. 523, 57 L. Ed. 879, Ann. Cas. 1914D, 1029, it may be well to .call attention to another question.presented up on this review.”
On page 701 of 277 F.,'although of opinion that the complaint should have been dismissed, the formal order was “Judgment reversed.”- . -
The effect .of a mandate similar to that issued by'this couri.jn the ease at bar was considered by the Circuit Court' of Appeals in McNee v. Williams, 280 F. 95, 97, where the court said: “* * *' We think there is no room to claim that it directed, or intended to direct the. District Court to enter a final judgment in favor of the defendant [plaintiff here].”
In view of the' fact that the issue determined upon the former appeal was one of law, it may be possible, although we do not decide the point, that upon the previous appeal this court, might have ordered a judgment to.be entered in favor of the appellant therein if requested so to do, Bayne v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 195 F. 236, or limited the new trial to the specific issue raised upon the appeal without violating .the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. See Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Co. 283 U. S. 494, 51 S. Ct. 513, 75 L. Ed. 1188. This was not done, how-' ever. The effect of our order of reversal and mandate thereon was to' call for’ a new,trial upon all the issues of fact. This trial Was denied by the court, and for that reason the judgment must be reversed. . -
Appellants ask us to pass upon the sufficiency of' the facts pleaded in the complaint to sustain a' judgment. The pleadings and findings occupy about 185 pages of the transcript. The point was apparently not seriously pressed in the trial court, and appellee is relying upon the judgment as one directed to be entered by this court, and hence not appealable. Under these eircumT stances we consider it unnecessary to pass upon the question, as our judgment sets the whole matter at large subject to the law of the case as established on the former appeal. The motion to dismiss the appeal interposed by the appellee is based upon the theory that the judgment entered by the trial court conformed to the order of reversal and for that reason was not appealable and must be denied. The appellee’s motion to strike out the bill of exceptions based upon the claim that it was filed too late depends upon the contention that the bill is in effect directed'to the first judgment, and consequently was presented too late, cannot be sustained; it shows the proceedings subsequent to the mandate and the motions and proceedings upon which the judgment was ordered given and made, and is essential to show a request for a trial was refused the appellants. The motion will be denied. .
Motion to dismiss denied; motion to strike out bill of exceptions denied. Judgment reversed.

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