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:
McCLURE et al. v. O. HENRY TENT & AWNING CO., Inc.
No. 10446.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Nov. 28, 1951.
Morris A. Haft, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
Jack I. Levy, Chicago, Ill. (Sonnenschein, Berkson, Lautmann, Levinson & Morse, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellees.
Before KERNER, FINNEGAN, and SWAIM, Circuit Judges.
KERNER, Circuit Judge.
On a previous appeal in this cause we held that the contract in suit had been breached by defendant, as found by the court. However, because of an error in law in the measurement of damages for such breach, we remanded the cause for further proceedings only as to the question of damages. 184 F.2d 636.
Following remand of the cause, defendant filed its motion for hearing and for leave to introduce additional evidence without specifying the nature of the additional evidence, and plaintiffs filed their motion for additional findings of fact and judgment based on the evidence already of record in the cause. The court, without further hearing, adopted the findings proposed by plaintiffs and entered judgment based thereon for damages in the amount of $4,290.78, the game amount as had been decreed in the earlier judgment reversed by us. Defendant appeals. Since we briefly stated the essential evidence in our opinion on the earlier appeal, we shall not restate it.
The error in law to which we called attention in our earlier opinion had to do with the date adopted by the court for measuring the damages which it had fixed as the difference between the contract price of the goods and the market price on the date of the filing of the suit. It appeared from the evidence that although the contract had called for the delivery of material of a specified quality and quantity at specified times, the plaintiffs had accepted materials of a different quality furnished after the due dates, hence there was shown, and the court found, an indefinite extension of delivery time by mutual consent. We therefore held that the damages should have been' determined as of the time of the termination of that extension, and remanded to enable the trial court to determine whether the indefinite extension had been duly terminated, and, if so, when.
Defendant contends that it was error for the court, on remand, to render the finding of facts and enter judgment thereon without hearing additional evidence, and that the evidence already of record was insufficient to support this special finding which was as follows: “After, but not for some time after, May 21, 1946, the date on whioh defendant made the last shipment of material under the duck contract, plaintiffs again asked defendant to perform the duck contract. A reasonable time thereafter, i. e., August 14, 1946, defendant having failed to perform, plaintiffs’ attorneys demanded satisfaction from defendant upon threat of instituting this suit, thereby terminating the extensions for indefinite periods of the time for defendant to perform said contract. The market price of 30" 10.53 oz. army duck was 45.86 per yard on August 14, 1946, which price was 'in effect from August 5, 1946 until August 30, 1946.”
We cannot agree with defendant’s contention that the court was compelled to hear additional evidence upon the remand of the cause. As we stated, the evidence as to a fact vital to the decision of the cause was in dispute, and it was the duty of the trial court to resolve that dispute. That did not mean that a new trial was necessary. Of course, had the court desired to hear additional evidence on the issue it was free to do so under our mandate. But it appears from its disposition of the cause that it was satisfied that there was sufficient evidence of- record upon which to base -its finding, and that further hearing was unnecessary. We cannot say that its disposition of the cause was clearly erroneous. The record presented on the original appeal discloses that the proofs had been fully developed, and we think they are sufficient to support the additional finding of facts. Under these circumstances it was not error for the court to dispense with further hearings. Goldstein v. Franklin Square Bank, 2 Cir., 107 F.2d 393. Compare United States v. Yellow Cab Co., 338 U.S. 338, 70 S.Ct. 177,94 L.Ed. 150.
-Cases upon which defendant relies to the effect that “A lower Court has full power to consider and determine any question or matters which the decision and the mandate of the reviewing court have left open and undisputed, Sprague v. Ticonic National Bank, 307 U.S. 161 [59 S.Ct. 777, 83 L.Ed. 1184], and to take such further proceedings as may be necessary in the case to effectuate the decision of the Appellate Court, Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Slattery, [7 Cir.], 98 F.2d 930,” do not require a different conclusion under the facts here presented.
Judgment 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: 99