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:
Alvin FREEDMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL MARITIME UNION OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, Defendant-Appellee, and American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 456, Docket 29549.
United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.
Argued April 28, 1965.
Decided June 23, 1965.
Alvin Freedman, pro se.
Abraham E. Freedman, Charles Sovel, Stanley B. Gruber, New York City, for defendant-appellee National Maritime Union.
Lorenz, Finn & Giardino, New York City, for defendant-appellee American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc.
Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and WATERMAN and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.
WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff brought his action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the National Maritime Union, his former collective bargaining representative, and^ the American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, his former employer. He alleged that the company had breached the collective bargaining agreement which governed his employment by discharging and refusing to rehire him, a breach in which the union had participated; that the union had violated its fiduciary obligation to represent plaintiff fairly; and that the company and the union had conspired to defraud him of his rights under the collective bargaining agreement. Jurisdiction was founded on Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185. Humphrey v. Moore, 375 U.S. 335, 341, 344, 84 S.Ct. 363, 11 L.Ed.2d 370 (1964).
The underlying facts are not in dispute. On October 27, 1961, plaintiff was discharged by the company from his position as able bodied seaman aboard the S.S. “Export Aide.” The company claimed, without contradiction by plaintiff, that on September 18 he had been unable or unwilling to steer the vessel properly, and that on October 15 he had refused to obey a legitimate order of his boatswain.
Plaintiff requested the union to challenge his discharge through the grievance and arbitration procedures prescribed in the collective bargaining agreement between the union and the company. After investigating the circumstances surrounding the discharge, the union agent responsible for processing plaintiff’s grievance decided not to pursue the matter further. The agent claimed that, in view of plaintiff’s refusal to obey proper orders, the company’s action was entirely justified.
On February 27, 1962, an examiner for the United States Coast Guard found plaintiff guilty of negligence in steering the S.S. “Export Aide,” and suspended his seaman’s documents on probation. This ruling was reversed by the Acting Commandant on December 16, 1968, on the limited ground that plaintiff “could not steer properly, at any time, even after considerable practice” and therefore could not be charged with negligence.
Meanwhile, plaintiff, because of the company’s failure to rehire him and the union’s failure to prosecute his grievance, had filed a series of charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the union and the company. In each instance the Regional Director and the General Counsel of the Board, finding no basis for plaintiff’s claim that he was the object of discriminatory treatment, refused to issue a complaint.
On August 21,1964, plaintiff instituted the present suit. Defendants moved to dismiss the action under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b) (6) and for summary judgment under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56. Judge Bonsai granted the motion for summary judgment, ruling that the papers which had been submitted to him demonstrated that “plaintiff was not discharged without cause,” that “the Union did not act in bad faith in refusing to process his grievance for wrongful discharge,” and that “plaintiff’s charges of conspiracy and fraud are conclusory * * * ”
We agree with the district judge that the papers in this case demonstrate, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c), “that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the [defendants are] entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.” We have also considered plaintiff’s procedural objections and find them to be without merit as grounds for reversing the district court. The judgment below is therefore 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: 0