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:
LIM WUN v. NAGLE, Immigration Com’r.
No. 6404.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Sept. 14, 1931.
Stephen M. White, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.
Geo. J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., and I. M. Peckham, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.
Before WILBUR and SAWTELLE, Circuit Judges, and NETERER, District Judge.
WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
The appellant claims the right to admission into this country as the Chinese-born son of Lim Chek, who is conceded to be an American citizen. He was denied admission by a board of special inquiry at San Francisco on the ground that he had not established satisfactorily that he is the son of the alleged father. It is claimed by applicant that the evidence adduced before the immigration authorities established to a reasonable certainty that he was the son of his alleged father and that in denying the existence of the claimed relationship these authorities acted arbitrarily and unfairly. His petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by the United States District Court, and he appeals from that order.
Appellant arrived in the Port of San Francisco on July 9, 1930, at which time he was nine years and six months old. The alleged father has made several trips to China and claims to have been married in China in September, 1891, to Lew Shee; he claims to have become the father of three sons and one daughter; one son Lim Chee, who was bom December 1, 1892, first came to the United States on February 4, 1920, returned to China in November, 1928, and again came to the United States with appellant in July, 1930. The second son, Lim Goek, who was bom on July 12, 1897, first came to the United States in October, 1916, and thereafter made one trip to China, departing in December, 1917, and returning in November, 1919. The daughter, Lim Yee, was bom in December, 1907. The appellant is claimed to be the third son. The alleged father was in China from December, 1917, to September, 1920, at a time to render possible bis paternity of a child of appellant’s age.
The alleged father was in China last in 1920. He arrived at the port of entry in September of that year, and according to the evidence the applicant was bom January 12, 1921. At the time of his entry he must have known that his wife was expecting a child to be bom in January, if that were a fact. He does not mention this expectation. It is true that he was not directly asked the question as far as the records show, but his familiarity with the difficulty of gaining entry to this country and the difficulties he had already experienced in landing his son would seem to point out to him clearly the desirability of such a statement. It should be noted also that at that time the wife was nearly forty-eight years of age.
The father^had never seen his son until he arrived at the port of entry, and his testimony identifying the son is based entirely upon the resemblance of the boy to pictures purporting to be his son which he claims were sent to him by his wife at the time he was making preparation for the entry of this boy in 1928. The alleged brother who brought the applicant to this country was not in the homo at the time of the birth of the applicant, arriving there for the first time when the boy was abojit seven years old. The effect of his testimony therefore is that the applicant lived in the home of the alleged father and was recognized by the alleged father’s wife as her son during that period. Undoubtedly the evidence of the father and alleged brother, if given full credit, would establish the paternity of the applicant. After careful examination, however, the immigration authorities rejected the testimony of the applicant on the ground that certain discrepancies existed between the testimony of the applicant and of his alleged brother and father. This testimony related to the location of the house in which it is claimed the applicant resided with his mother. It is true that a child of that age might make a mistake as to the number of rows of houses in the village, also as to the number of houses therein, and as to the relative location of the house with reference to the ancestral hall in the village; but there was a definite discrepancy in the testimony which immigration authorities, after careful consideration and giving due consideration to the youth of the applicant, determine to be an element in the rejection of the testimony given on behalf of the applicant. There was also a flat disagreement in the statement of the applicant and of his brother with relation to the visit of applicant and his brother to the Luk Poo Market, with reference to who accompanied the applicant and his brother when ho visited the ancestral graves, and with reference to those who accompanied them to the boat landing when they left their native village; the brother testifying that four of applicant’s nephews accompanied them; the applicant stating that none accompanied them.
The discrepancies relied upon by the Secretary of Labor in his decision are set out at length in his opinion, which covers nearly three pages of the transcript. It would unduly extend this opinion to further elaborate the discrepancies. It is sufficient to say we find no evidence of an arbitrary and unfair determination of the matter by the Secretary of Labor (Gung You v. Nagle (C. C. A.) 34 F.(2d) 848, 851; Yee Mon v. Weedin (C. C. A.) 34 F.(2d) 266), and for that reason the order is affirmed.
Order 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: 0