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:
HAMMOND HOTEL & IMPROVEMENT CO. v. FINLAYSON et al.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh. Circuit.
May 16, 1925.)
No. 3571.
1. Removal of causes <@=>107(9) — Appeal does not lie from order of remandment.
Under Judicial Code, § 28 (Comp. St. § 1010), appeal does not lie from order of remandment.
2. Removal of causes <@=>107(8) — Where cause is remanded to state court, federal District Court has no further jurisdiction.
Where cause is remanded to state court, federal District Court has no further jurisdiction to determine any issues.
3. Removal of causes <@=>107(9) — On remand to state court, appeal from vacation of order restraining further proceedings in state court is futile and will be dismissed.
Where cause is remanded to state court, defendant’s appeal from order of District Court, vacating order restraining further proceedings in state court and denying temporary injunction for similar relief, is futile, and will be dismissed.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois.
Suit by John Einlayson and another, co-partners doing business as Einlayson Bros., against the Hammond Hotel & Improvement Company. Erom the vacation of an order temporarily restraining plaintiffs from proceeding in state court, and from a denial of a temporary injunction seeking similar relief, defendant appeals.
Appeal dismissed.
June 17, 1924, appellees brought suit at law in the superior court of Cook county, 111., against appellant, an Indiana corporation, and declaration was filed. Alias summons, of date July 17, was returned with indorsement of service on July 25 upon appellant, by delivering at Chicago a copy to W. J. Whinery, secretary of the corporation. August 5 special appearance was entered by appellant for sole purpose of objecting to jurisdiction of court over appellant, and affidavits were filed to effect that appellant was not, and never had been, engaged in business in Illinois, and has and had no agents or prdperty therein, and that W. J.. Whinery, its secretary, resided in Indiana, and while temporarily in Chicago was there served with the summons. August 6, on motion of appellant, an order was entered giving appellant leave to file special appearance, and on September 6, on appellant’s motion, the court permitted appellant to file motion to quash the summons, and ordered that the affidavits already filed may stand in support of the motion, and such motion was filed, giving reasons as stated in the affidavits. September 20 appellees moved to strike out appellant’s motion to quash the service of the summons, and for a default for want of plea. October 3 appellant filed petition in due form, with bond, for removal of cause to United States District Court for Northern District of Illinois. November 21 the state court denied the petition for removal, and on appellees’ motion- ordered that the motion to quash the service be stricken from the files, whereupon appellant entered its motion for leave to file instanter a plea in abatement. This motion was denied, and appellant was ruled to plead or demur to appellees’ declaration within 20 days. December 5 appellant filed in the District Court transcript of the proceedings in the superior court, together • with petition for removal and bond, and petition for temporary restraining order against appellees from proceeding further in the superior court, which was granted, with rule to show cause why a temporary injunction should not issue enjoining appellees from taking further proceedings in the superior court. In response to rule to show cause appellees filed suggestions to the effect that petition and bond for removal were not presented within time required by law. After various continuances of the matter, on March 24, 1925, it was heard, and the District Court ordered that the temporary restraining order be dissolved, and the rule to show cause why temporary injunction should not issue be discharged, and that the cause be remanded to the state court.
William J. Whinery, of Hammond, Ind., for appellant.
James B. Wescott, of Chicago, 111., for appellees.
Before ALSCHULER, PAGE, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.
ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The appeal is from the vacation of the temporary restraining order and denial of temporary injunction.
Appeal does not lie from order of remandment (section 28 of Judicial Code [Comp. St. § 1010]), but appellant’s undertaking here is, in effect, to have held for naught the order of remandment of the cause, and much of the brief is devoted to support of the contention that the state court should have ordered the removal, and that the District Court should not have remanded the cause.
The temporary restraining order which the District Court granted was evidently in aid of its jurisdiction to hear the question whether it should hold the cause for trial or remand it to the state court. The temporary injunction, for which appellant applied, was in its essence of the same nature. Neither the restraining order nor a temporary injunction would have served any purpose after the cause was remanded to the state court, since by the very act of remandment the further jurisdiction of the District Court over the action ceased. It would seem that the remandment itself operated to vacate any injunctive order of the District Court made only for preserving the status until that court adjudicated the question of removal.
It appears to be counsel’s contention that, the lack of jurisdiction of the state court over appellant being apparent, the cause should not have been remanded, but an injunction awarded to restrain further prosecution of the action. It is sufficient answer to say that want of jurisdiction over appellant does not appear on the face of the proceedings. The asserted facts respecting the service, whereon the alleged want of jurisdiction is predicated, were controvertible, and but for the remandment a properly made issue of fact thereon would have been triable in the District Court. But the remandment, whether right or wrong, left the District Court without jurisdiction to hear and determine that possible issue, or any other issue in the cause.
Without considering appellees’ insistence that section 129 of the Judicial Code (Comp. St. § 1121), which gives appeal from interlocutory orders granting or denying injunction in proceedings in equity, can have no application to a restraining order made in an action at law, we are of opinion that, with the cause remanded, appeal from the vacation of the restraining order, and from the denial of the temporary injunction, is wholly futile, and can in no event avail appellant anything.
The appeal is therefore dismissed.

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