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:
FOX JEWELRY COMPANY, Appellant, v. John C. LEE, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Fox Jewelers, Inc., Bankrupt, Appellee.
No. 17480.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
March 12, 1959.
Edwin W. Ross, Harold Karp, and Carpenter, Karp & Mathews, Atlanta, Ga., for appellants, Fox Jewelry Company and Robert Feldser.
J. Kurt Holland and Haas, Holland & Zinkow, Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge,, and CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a turnover order issued in Fox Jewelers, Inc., Bankrupt, against Fox Jewelry Company, a corporation not only in name but in every other aspect which underlies and attends corporate existence. The purpose and scope of the order was, treating the respondent as the alter ego of Fox Jewelers, Inc. to seize and administer its assets and affairs as though its possession was the possession of the bankrupt.
The trustee, standing firmly on the-finding of the referee, insists that the-possession of the assets by the respondent for itself and in its own right was. merely colorable, that is pretextual and feigned, and was really in right of the-bankrupt.
Arguing that the fact that Feldserwas the president and stockholder in both companies; that, as such, he did all the purchasing of the stocks of merchandise and generally handled the business, for both companies; that, in short, he-had one man control of both; and that, this is a case in which there is no difficulty in piercing the corporate veil; he-urges upon us that, though the two corporations conducted their business in-separate towns, had separate bookkeeping, paid separate income and social' security taxes, and in every respect except that they were closely affiliated one-man corporations, were separate, the ref-eree’s holding, that the respondent was in effect the bankrupt and his assets were subject to be seized in a summary proceeding, was correct. We do not think so.
Without discussing the facts in detail other than as above set out, we think that there is no basis whatever in the record for the exercise of summary jurisdiction. This is not to say that there may not be ample basis for a finding in a plenary proceeding that the bankrupt has been imposed upon by the respondent, and that the respondent is accountable to the bankrupt for such imposition. It is to say, though, that the matters on which the trustee relies, control of the two corporations by the one man stockholder and president of each, the fact that they act together, and especially the fact that the purchasing of their stocks of goods are all done by the same man, is not determinative of the question whether the corporations are in fact, as in every legal aspect they appear to be, two corporations or simply one, and the possession of the respondent was the possession of the bankrupt. If the contention of the trustee in this case is correct, then in any case merely of closely affiliated corporations, with one stockholder and one management, this claim of summary judgment could be maintained. The law is otherwise settled. Sampsell v. Imperial Paper & Color Corp., 313 U.S. 215, 61 S.Ct. 904, 85 L.Ed. 1293. In Maule Industries v. Gerstel, 5 Cir., 232 F.2d 294, this court discussed the philosophy and theory of summary jurisdiction and the reasons which underlie and support it, as well as the reasons which deny such asserted jurisdiction when those against whom it is asserted will be deprived thereby of their constitutional rights to a plenary trial with the sanctions and protections such trial affords.
The argument, which seems to be the main reliance of referee and trustee, that it is more desirable that the bankruptcy court have the summary jurisdiction contended for because it can therewith administer matters more expeditiously and more effectively protect the creditors and the estate, while good enough as far as it goes, gives too little weight to the counter contention that durable as that is, it is not sufficiently desirable to permit doing away with the safeguards and sanctions provided by law against undue celerity and the deprivation of substantial rights. The exercise of summary jurisdiction in this case is without support in the evidence and the applicable law.
The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded for further and not inconsistent proceedings.

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