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:
The UNITED STATES of America for the Use and Benefit of CHARLES R. JOYCE & SON, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. F. A. BAEHNER, INC., Defendant, and Hambly Construction Company, Inc. and National Surety Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 87, Docket 27632.
United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.
Argued Oct. 19, 1962.
Decided Oct. 23, 1962.
Tillott & LaFleche, Schenectady, N. Y. (Jacob M. Frankel, Schenectady, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.
Newkirk & DiFabio, Albany, N. Y. (Leslie F. Couch, Albany, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.
Before WATERMAN, HAYS and MARSHALL, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Hambly Construction Company. Inc., a defendant below, was a prime contractor on a United States government construction project, and the National Surety Corporation was surety that the contractor would perform the work properly and would pay the bills required to be paid, including those payable under the Miller Act, 40 U.S.C. § 270b.
The use-plaintiff below, Charles R. Joyce & Son, Inc., furnished a ventilation system to one of the prime contractor’s subcontractors, F. A. Baehner, Inc., now in bankruptcy. Claiming full compliance with the conditions set forth in 40 U.S.C. § 270b and an unpaid contract price due it of $7,605 plaintiff brought its action under that section against the prime contractor and the surety.
After further pleadings the plaintiff-appellee moved for summary judgment in accord with the provisions of Rule 56(a), Fed.Rules Civ.Proc. The court below granted the motion for the amount he found from the record to be undisputed, a sum of $5,890.60. He further, in a memorandum-decision, stated that a “balance of $1,715.00 is the only amount in sufficient controversy and shall remain for trial.” (Emphasis supplied.)
The judgment order reads:
“Ordered and Adjudged that the balance claimed in the Complaint which remains in controversy, to wit, the sum of Seventeen hundred fifteen ($1,715.00) Dollars shall remain for trial.”
Appellant stated in its notice of appeal that the order appealed from “awarded partial summary judgment to the use-plaintiff in the sum of $5,890.60,” and “directed that a trial be held to determine what further sums, if any, might be due the use-plaintiff.”
At argument we made inquiries of counsel to learn what disposition, if any, had been had of the $1,715.00 disputed item, and apparently it remains in dispute.
Under well-settled rules a partial summary judgment order of this character is not an appealable order, and we lack appellate jurisdiction over this case. Though the parties did not raise the question, we must raise it. Borges v. Art Steel Co., Inc., 243 F.2d 350 (2 Cir., 1957); Audi Vision, Inc. v. RCA Mfg. Co., 136 F.2d 621, 147 A.L.R. 574 (2 Cir., 1943). See Advisory Committee’s Note of 1946 to Subdivision (d) of Rule 56, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.
The appeal is premature and is dismissed for lack of appellate jurisdiction.

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: 2