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:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Donald J. DIEN, Sanford S. Gendler, and Michael E. Dakota, Defendants-Appellants.
Nos. 1080-2, Dockets 79-1036, 79-1072 and 79-1075.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued June 5, 1979.
Decided Oct. 26, 1979.
Petition for Rehearing Filed Dec. 12, 1979.
Decided Jan. 31, 1980.
Before OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges and STEWART, District Judge.
Of the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.
STEWART, District Judge:
In regard to the Government’s argument that a “security search of the photo studio” was permissible, the panel opinion made it quite clear that “where the agents have reason to believe other suspects were in the apartment,” exigent circumstances exist. U. S. v. Dien, 609 F.2d 1038 at 1047 (2nd Cir.). Here, however, they did not, as indicated by DiGravio’s not searching the room immediately upon entering. Id. We think that this does not change the law of United States v. Christophe, 470 F.2d 865, 869 (2d Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 411 U.S. 964, 93 S.Ct. 2140, 36 L.Ed.2d 684 (1973) and similar cases relative to cursory searches although the statement in Christophe made no mention of exigent circumstances. In any event the law very plainly requires exigent circumstances. Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752, 763, 89 S.Ct. 2034, 2040, 23 L.Ed.2d 685 (1969), so far as we are aware, has never been overruled. See also United States v. Mapp, 476 F.2d 67 (2d Cir. 1973); United States v. Mangeri, 451 F.Supp. 73, 76-78 (S.D.N.Y.1978); United States v. Bravo, 403 F.Supp. 297, 302-03 (S.D.N.Y.1975), aff’d in part and rev’d in part sub nom., United States v. Armando-Sarmiento, 545 F.2d 785 (2d Cir. 1976).
In respect to the seized boxes all that we held was that a warrant to open them was required. The cardboard boxes were closed and sealed with tape. The van was immobilized and Agent DiGravio had the keys. The van was only a short distance from the courthouse. The sole question was whether a warrant should have been obtained to open the cartons. Arkansas v. Sanders, 442 U.S. 753, 99 S.Ct. 2586, 61 L.Ed.2d 235 (1979) held that the answer to this was affirmative, citing Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 481, 91 S.Ct. 2022, 2045, 29 L.Ed.2d 564 (1971) and, inter alia, United States v. Chadwick, 433 U.S. 1, 97 S.Ct. 2476, 53 L.Ed.2d 538 (1977). The various arguments of the Government here were dealt with in our opinion, 1044-46, and in those cases.
The only really arguable point is whether Arkansas v. Sanders made new law. We think it did not, as the Court itself defined the question as whether “the warrantless search of respondent’s suitcase falls on the Chadwick or the Chambers/Carroll side of the Fourth Amendment.” 442 U.S. at 757, 99 S.Ct. at 2589. Being guided by “established principles,” id., the Court there applied Chadwick retroactively to an April 23, 1976 Little Rock, Arkansas police search. Presumably Peltier prospectivity did not come into play because of Coolidge. A fortiori a search as is involved here after Chadwick must require a warrant.
To be sure, United States v. Ochs, 595 F.2d 1247 (2d Cir. 1979), followed Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U.S. 42, 90 S.Ct. 1975, 26 L.Ed.2d 419 (1970), and said that Chadwick “did not affect the viability of Chambers on facts such as these.” Id. at 1254; but see, e. g., United States v. Stevie, 582 F.2d 1175, 1179, 61 L.Ed.2d 876 (8th Cir. 1978) (en banc) cert. denied, 443 U.S. 911, 99 S.Ct. 3102 (1979), cited in Ochs, 595 F.2d at 1254 n. 5: Ochs sought to distinguish Chadwick by arguing first that the briefcases in Ochs were not locked (and presumably therefore their owner had a lesser expectation of privacy). Id. at 1255. But here as in Chadwick the cartons were taped. The second distinction is that the owner of the car in which the briefcases were found, one Narday, could have appeared at the police station and demanded the car and its contents, id., thus making the circumstances “exigent.” Here there was no such exigency. The cartons had been lawfully seized from the van.
Finally the Government argues that the panel misstated the evidence relative to the defendants’ admissions as to the contents of the cartons. The agent’s testimony at the submission hearing was to the effect that when he confronted Dien with the fact that he had seen the boxes loaded into the van at 262 Fifth Avenue, Dien replied that he did not know where in the building “the marijuana came from” and described “the individual that helped load the marijuana in the van.” Later when Gendler was told that the agents planned to return to 262 Fifth Avenue to arrest the person who had helped load the boxes, Gendler suggested that the agent “keep the marijuana and turn him and Dien loose.” These admissions are said to have reduced the defendant’s expectation of privacy under United States v. Candella, 469 F.2d 173, 175 (2d Cir. 1972).
Candella is a case where the suspect “pointed to the exact spot where the guns were located and told the officers where they were,” and on this basis the guns were held admissible under the “plain view” doctrine. Nothing so definitive is presented in the Government’s petition. To be sure, Dien’s admissions would probably lead any reasonable person to believe that there was marijuana in the boxes, but they do not, on their face come close to the direct pointing which occurred in Candella. There was no reason not to submit the evidence to the judgment of a neutral magistrate.
We adhere to our previous decision.

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: 0