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:
L. M. ORCHARD, M. R. Orchard and Donald L. Orchard, doing business as Orchard Auto Parts Co., Appellants, v. AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF WATERTOWN, NEW YORK, a corporation, Appellee.
No. 19379.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Jan. 25, 1965.
Bert W. Levit, Victor B. Levit, Francis Willmarth, San Francisco, Cal., Thomas E. Brownhill, Riddlesbarger, Pederson, IBrownhill & Ingerson, Eugene, Or., for .appellants.
Roland F. Banks, Jr., Mautz, Souther, •Spaulding, Kinsey, & Williamson, Portland, Or., for appellee.
Before HAMLEY, HAMLIN and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Agricultural Insurance Company issued to L. M. Orchard and others, doing business as Orchard Auto Parts Co., a •policy of liability insurance. Thereafter two lawsuits were filed against Orchard .and others in which damages were sought arising out of an accident which occurred while the policy was in force. The aeci•dent was caused by a rear-axle wheel bearing which Orchard had sold and -delivered to an automobile mechanic and which the latter installed on one of the vehicles involved in the accident. The wheel bearing was sound but was for a 1955-56 Chevrolet, when in fact a wheel bearing for a 1957 Chevrolet had been required and ordered from Orchard.
Invoking its policy of liability insur.anee, Orchard tendered the defense of these lawsuits to the insurance company. ’The latter declined to defend. It did so on the ground that the duty to defend and to pay damages for which Orchard might become legally obligated as a result of this accident was excluded by reason of an endorsement on the policy. This endorsement is entitled: “Endorsement Eliminating Coverage with Respect to Products and Completed Operations.” In one of the two lawsuits arising from the accident, a judgment in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars was thereafter rendered against Orchard.
Orchard then commenced this action against the insurance company for a judgment declaring that, under the policy of liability insurance, defendant was obligated to defend Orchard in the two lawsuits, is obligated to reimburse Orchard for sums expended by Orchard in defense of those suits, and is obligated to pay damages for which Orchard becomes legally obligated to pay as a result of the accident. Orchard also sought recovery of sums already expended in defense of the damage suits. Jurisdiction in the district court rests upon diversity of citizenship. At the time this action was filed the second damage lawsuit was still pending.
The district court, granting the insurance company’s motion to dismiss, entered judgment dismissing the action. Orchard appeals.
Orchard argues that the district court misconstrued the endorsement eliminating certain coverage and that properly construed, the endorsement does not eliminate the coverage Orchard here invokes. Plaintiff also contends that the action should not have been dismissed on motion, because, at the very least, the endorsement is ambiguous and extrinsic evidence would be admissible to assist the court in resolving the ambiguity.
We agree with the district court for the reasons stated in its opinion, Orchard v. Agricultural Insurance Co., D.C., 228 F.Supp. 564, that the endorsement, read as a whole is not ambiguous, and that it eliminates the coverage for which Orchard contends. The policy provisions in question are quoted in the district court’s opinion. See also, Tidewater Associated Oil Co. v. Northwest Casualty Co., 9 Cir., 264 F.2d 879, involving a generally similar exclusion of product liability endorsement, and in which this court rejected contentions much like some of those Orchard makes here.
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: 4