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:
BURMAN et al. v. LENKIN CONST. CO. et al.
No. 8877.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.
Argued March 14, 1945.
Decided May 14, 1945.
Mr. Jacob N. Halper, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.
Mr. Leo A. Rover, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Irvin Goldstein, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.
Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.
PER CURIAM.
Appellant Louis Burman, who was plaintiff below, brought this action for himself and for his wholly owned corporation, Oxon Park Housing Corporation, against Lenkin Construction Company and others for damages for breach of contract and for the recovery of $1,500 paid by him in compromise of the differences between the parties, but which he claims was paid under duress and coercion. The court below entered summary judgment for the defendants (appellees).
The controversy grows out of a contract made in October, 1942, in which Burman agreed with Lenkin Company to employ the latter in the construction of not less than fifteen nor more than thirty four-family buildings upon certain unimproved land in the District of Columbia which Burman had agreed to purchase. It was understood that the performance of the contract depended upon obtaining certain priorities for the use of critical materials necessary in the construction of the buildings and the obtaining of commitments from the Federal Housing Administration of loans covering the cost of construction. Oxon Park Housing Corporation, as owner, was awarded the necessary priority permits, which named the Lenkin Company as builder and contractor, but it was claimed by Lenkin that commitments covering first trust loans in an amount sufficient to cover the cost of construction, which the agreement required Burman to obtain, were never secured, and after written notice to Burman, Lenkin declined to go forward until the commitments were had.
Burman thereupon, without notice to Lenkin, entered into a contract to sell the entire project to another and agreed as a part of that transaction to obtain from Len-kin and transfer to the new party the priorities covering the necessary building materials. But Lenkin declined to make the transfer, claiming default on Burman’s part. Whereupon Burman and Lenkin entered into an agreement, dated November 28, 1942, to cancel their contract and to settle all their differences. This agreement contemplated the payment by Burman of $1,500 to Lenkin and the release of the latter from any and all claims or demands of Burman, and Lenkin on its part agreed to transfer to Burman the priorities award and to release Burman from any claims of Lenkin in connection with the original project.
On this appeal the points relied upon are (1) that, since the pleadings raise the question of duress in obtaining the release, the court erred in entering summary judgment and (2) that the court erred in failing to state separately its findings and conclusions of law in accordance with Rule 52(a), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c.
(1). If the agreement between the parties in which they settled their differences is not subject to the charge that it was obtained by coercion, its terms conclude either of the parties as to any claim of the one against the other in relation to the original agreement. We think the deposition of appellant Burman, the facts of which are admitted by the motion for summary judgment, clearly negatives the charge that the compromise was obtained through coercion. Unquestionably, there were differences between the parties, and it is not difficult to find in the record evidences of failure of performance in minor respects on both sides. But this was known and understood by the parties when the settlement was made. At that time each perfectly understood that the other was surrendering all his claims; and each agreed on the consideration for such surrender. Appellant got what he sought in the transfer of the priorities to purchase the building materials, without which the subsequent sale for which he had already contracted could not have been consummated, and the $1,500 paid by him was then and there understood as fair compensation to the other party for giving up the priorities and relinquishing its rights under the building contract.
The deposition indicates clearly that it was Burman who “insisted” on the settlement, rather than yielding to it as a result of the defendant’s coercion. By obtaining the release of the priorities he was able to make a profit on the sale of the land. There is nothing in his testimony which even tends to support his allegation of “duress of property,” or which shows that he entered into the compromise from few or threats, or that, in agreeing to what he did agree to, he was not acting in the full exercise of his business judgment.
(2). We have carefully read and1 considered the entire record, and while we-think it is always desirable, on a trial to a judge without a jury, that the facts should be found to aid us in understanding the basis of the decision, we are nevertheless of opinion that here the record considered as a whole does not present a genuine issue as to any material fact — in view of which it would be both a waste of time and a needless expense to send the case back to the District Court for special findings of fact.
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: 2