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:
FAIRCLOTH v. UNITED STATES.
No. 3235.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit,
Jan. 20, 1932.
T. Morris Wampler, of Washington, D. C. (William L. Marbury and Jesse Slingluff, Jr., both of Baltimore, Md., and Joseph C. Turco, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.
■Simon E. Sobeloff, U. S. Atty., of Baltimore, Md. (Charles G. Page, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for the United States.
Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
The appellant was found guilty, by a jury, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, of violating section 592, tit. 12, USCA. There were twelve counts in the indictment against appellant, who will be hereinafter referred to as the defendant, whieh charged him with aiding and abetting one Schatz, in the fraudulent misapplication of the funds of the First National Bank of Mt. Ranier, Md. Schatz, who was cashier of the bank, and who was jointly indicted with the defendant, pleaded guilty, and was used as a witness for the government at defendant’s trial. Defendant was sentenced by the trial judge to serve fifteen months in the penitentiary, from whieh judgment this appeal was brought.
The only points relied upon as error in the trial below relate to the refusal of the trial judge to give instructions requested on behalf of the defendant on three propositions :
(1) An instruction dealing with the presumption of innocence. Defendant’s instruction No. 1.
(2) An instruction to the effect that evidence of good character might alone create a reasonable doubt that would justify acquittal. Defendant’s instruction No. 4.
(3) An instruction that the testimony of an accomplice should be received with great care and caution. Defendant’s instruction No. 5.
A” court is not required to adopt the language of a requested instruction, even though it states a correct proposition of law, if the same instructions are fully and substantially covered by instruction in the court’s own language in the oral charge to the jury. Sugarman v. United States, 249 U. S. 182, 39 S. Ct. 191, 63 L. Ed. 550; Dunagan v. Appalachian Power Co. (C. C. A.) 23 F.(2d) 395; Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. v. Coffey (C. C. A.) 37 F.(2d) 320.
A careful study of the judge’s charge to the jury shows that he correctly stated the law as to the presumption of innocence, the weight to be given evidence of the good character of the defendant, and warned the jury that Schatz, the accomplice, was a confessed criminal. .The charge substantially covered the three instructions asked, and there was no error in the rejection of these instructions in the language in whieh they were couched.
In addition to this, there was no objection to the charge at its conclusion, and no complaint on behalf of the defendant that the charge did not fully cover the points raised in the requested charges. There was only a formal exception to the refusal to give the instructions as requested. Baker v. United States (C. C. A.) 21 F.(2d) 903, and eases there cited.
In the assignments of errors, no error was alleged in the court’s refusal of defendant’s fourth and fifth instructions. (Points 2 and 3.) Rule 11 of this court reads in part as follows: “Assignment of Errors: The appellant or petitioner shall file with the clerk of the court below, with his petition for appeal, an assignment of errors, whieh shall set out separately and particularly each-error asserted and intended to be urged. * * * Such assignment of errors shall form part of the transcript of the record and be printed with it. When this rule is not complied with, counsel will not be heard, except at the request of the court; and errors not assigned according to this rule will be disregarded, but the court, at its option, may notice a plain error not assigned.”
Here there is no plain error; in fact, no error. The judgment is accordingly 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