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:
Audrey WALKER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Martha WHEELER, Superintendent, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 18884.
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
May 27, 1969.
James R. Willis, Cleveland, Ohio, for petitioner-appellant.
Leo J. Conway, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbus, Ohio, for respondent-appellee; Paul W. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, on brief.
Before PECK and McCREE, Circuit Judges, and McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from the District Court’s denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (1948). A number of constitutional issues are presented, but we reach only the question whether in this ease the District Court is precluded from considering the validity of one of appellant’s convictions because the sentence imposed is concurrent with, and identical to, a sentence on a later conviction, the validity of which has not been successfully attacked.
Appellant was convicted of a narcotics offense in the state court on December 19, 1960, and sentenced to a term of ten to twenty years in the Ohio Reformatory for Women. In December, 1961, she was convicted on other counts that were related to the original narcotics conviction, but which had been severed from the original indictment. These later convictions resulted in sentences of ten to twenty years, to run concurrently with the sentence on the first conviction, and twenty to forty years, to run consecutively to that sentence.
Appellant attacks her first conviction on the ground that she was denied an appeal because of the state trial court’s erroneous determination that she was not indigent and therefore entitled to the costs of a bill of exceptions. The state court apparently based its finding on the fact that appellant’s paramour and co-defendant, Yancey Wilson, had paid for her trial counsel and could afford to furnish her a bill of exceptions.
The District Judge declined to consider appellant’s contention despite the state court’s unsatisfactory reason for finding her not indigent. Relying on Mc-Nally v. Hill, 293 U.S. 131, 55 S.Ct. 24, 79 L.Ed. 238 (1934), and Coleman v. Maxwell, 387 F.2d 134 (6th Cir. 1967), he held that since appellant’s second conviction had not been successfully attacked and the sentence on that conviction was concurrent with, and identical to, the sentence on the first conviction, he did not have to consider the validity of the confinement pursuant to the first conviction.
Subsequent to the District Judge’s consideration of this case, the Supreme Court overruled McNally in Peyton v. Rowe, 391 U.S. 54, 88 S.Ct. 1549, 20 L.Ed.2d 426 (1968). This decision would seem also to erode Coleman, at least to the extent that in this case the District Judge should consider appellant’s contentions concerning her first conviction.
Appellee’s contention that Peyton is distinguishable because under Ohio law appellant’s eligibility for parole is unaffected by the existence of her second conviction is unpersuasive. It is unlikely that in practice parole is granted as readily to a person serving concurrent sentences on several convictions as to one serving a sentence for a single offense. See Williams v. Peyton, 372 F.2d 216, 220 (4th Cir. 1967).
The decision of the District Court is reversed and the case is remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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