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:
ARROW DRILLING COMPANY, Appellant, v. Richard T. BROOKS and Bituminous Casualty Corporation, Appellee.
No. 19299.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
May 25, 1962.
Otto Atchley, Victor Hlavinka, Atchley, Russell, Hutchinson & Waldrop, Texarkana, Tex., for appellant.
Franklin Jones, Sr., Marshall, Tex., L. L. Lockard, Shreveport, La., Larry Oubre, Dallas, Tex., Franklin Jones, Jr., Marshall, Tex. (Jones, Brian & Jones, Marshall, Tex., of counsel), for appellees.
Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in a suit for personal injuries received in Texas by appellee, as the employee of Griggs Casing Crews Co., Inc., a sub-contractor of appellant, the drilling contractor.
The grounds of negligence alleged were: (1) furnishing unsafe equipment used in the work performed by the Griggs crew; (2) employing a method of work which was unsafe; and (3) arranging the derrick and its appurtenances so as to cause a condition of danger and hazard.
In addition to these specific allegations of negligence, there was a general claim of negligence based upon res ipsa loquitur.
The defendant denied generally and pleaded contributory negligence and voluntary assumption of risk. In addition to these defenses, the defendant relied below and relies here upon two affirmative defenses styled First Defense-A and First Defense-B. These defenses in effect were a plea of res judicata based upon a judgment for compensation obtained by appellee in Louisiana and under its laws against Griggs Casing Crews, Inc. and its compensation carrier in Louisiana, and the claim that under Louisiana Workmen’s Compensation laws it was a statutory employer of appellee, liable solidarily with Griggs Casing Crews, Inc. for injuries suffered by plaintiff; and the compensation judgment was a bar to this suit against defendant.
The district judge, on a full hearing, struck these defenses on the ground that there was no final judgment in the Louisiana case. The cause was submitted to the jury, a verdict for plaintiff resulting; and defendant is here attacking the submission of the cause to the jury and the verdict as unsupported by the evidence, and, in addition, insisting: that defendant’s defenses A and B should have been sustained, and a verdict for defendant should have been directed on the defense of voluntary assumption of risk.
Appellee vigorously contests defendant’s claim on its special defenses A & B on the ground (1) that the district judge correctly held that the judgment in Louisiana disposing of plaintiff’s workmen’s compensation insurance was not shown to be a final judgment; and (2) that in no event could the Louisiana judgment for workmen’s compensation insurance deprive appellee-plaintiff of his right to bring a third party action for damages in Texas under the express authority of its compensation act. Appellee further insists that there was ample testimony to sustain the jury’s finding in favor of plaintiff-appellee on the assumed risk issue and the defendant’s motion for directed verdict was therefore properly denied.
The special defenses aside, we think it clear that the case was one for a jury verdict and that the defendant’s insistence that a verdict for defendant should have been directed on the ground that plaintiff, as matter of law, assumed the risk of injury is without sound basis. The issue was submitted to the jury on evidence which made it a jury issue, and the jury found for plaintiff.
As to the special defenses, based on the compensation award in Louisiana, we agree with appellee and the district judge that when the plea of estoppel and res judicata was disposed of by the judge, there was no final judgment in the cause, and the district judge was, therefore, right in rejecting the special defenses. We, therefore, find it unnecessary to inquire into and determine whether, as urged by defendant, if there had been a final judgment in the compensation suit, it would have been a bar to the Texas action.
The judgment is
Affirmed.

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