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 respondents in the case that fall into the category "private business and its executives". If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the respondent is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

Opinion:
EARNEY v. WARDREP.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
January 11, 1927.)
No. 2540.
1. Fraud <®=58(U— Evidence held not to establish employer falsely represented he had license, authorizing employee to solicit laborers to work in other state (Cr. Code S. C. 1922, §§ 308, 309).
Evidence held insufficient to establish that employer had falsely represented to employee that he had South Carolina emigrant agent’s license, and entitle employee to recovery in tort after bis arrest in South Carolina under Cr. Code S. C. 1922, §§ 308, 309, for failure to have emigrant agent’s license while attempting to secure laborers to work on North Carolina job.
2. Indemnity <®=>13(I) — Employee held not entitled to recover, on theory of implied indemnity contract, against employer for arrest while attempting without emigrant agent’s license to secure laborers in South Carolina (Cr. Code S. C. 1922, §§ 308, 309).
Employee held not entitled to recover against employer because of arrest under Cr. Code S. C. 1922, §§ 308, 309, for attempting to secure laborers to work in North Carolina without having emigrant agent’s license, on theory of implied contract by employer to save him harmless from anything that might in consequence happen to him.
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Charlotte; Edwin T. Webb, Judge.
Action by T. A. Earney against A. J. Wardrep. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
Affirmed.
H. B. Adams, of Waxhaw, N. C. (John A. McRae, of Charlotte, N. C., on the brief), for plaintiff in error.
John S. Cansler, of Charlotte, N. C. (E. T. Cansler, of Charlotte, N. C., on the brief )v for defendant in error.
Before WADDILL and ROSE, Circuit Judges, and WATKINS, District Judge.
ROSE, Circuit Judge.
The parties here occupy the same positions as they did below, and Earney, the plaintiff in error, will be referred to as the plaintiff, and his adversary, Wardrep, as the defendant.
In the spring of 1923, the defendant was constructing various state highways in North Carolina. The plaintiff was in his employ as a superintendent or supervisor of labor on one of these, and while so engaged went into South Carolina to get laborers to work on the job. The South Carolina authorities arrested him on the charge of carrying on the business of an emigrant agent without having obtained the state and county licenses required by sections 308 and 309 (chapter 3, §§ 186 and 187) of the Criminal Code (1922) of the state. He was subsequently indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hard labor on the roads for a term of two years, unless he paid a fine of $2,000. He was financially unable to make such payment, and before he was pardoned by the Governor he actually served some months of the sentence.
He alleges two causes of action, one in tort and the other in contract. The first was based upon the charge that the defendant had falsely represented to him that he had a South Carolina emigrant agent’s license under which the plaintiff could lawfully solicit laborers within the state, and the second rested upon the allegation that the defendant had used his position as a man of wealth and superior education and as plaintiff’s employer to insist that plaintiff should go to South Carolina to solicit hands, and had agreed to save the plaintiff harmless from anything that might in consequence happen to him. It is not claimed that either the false statement or the contract, or any part of either of them, were in writing. The plaintiff is the only witness to support his version of what was said by word of mouth. In his testimony, he does not claim the defendant told him he had a license. The furthest he goes is to say that, from what the defendant said, he (the plaintiff) supposed that the defendant had a license; but his own statement of what the defendant in fact said could not in our judgment justify the plaintiff in reaching the conclusion he says he did.. There is, therefore, no sufficient evidence to justify a recovery for the alleged tort.
The learned, able, and industrious counsel for the plaintiff has not found a case) in which a recovery upon such a contract as is alleged has ever been permitted, and we know of none. There is no evidence in the instant case of any special circumstances, if any there could be, which would justify the legal enforcement of an agreement so contrary to public policy. The learned judge below did not err in directing a verdict for the defendant.
Affirmed.

Question: What is the total number of respondents in the case that fall into the category "private business and its executives"? Answer with a number.

Choices:

Answer: 1