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 respondents in the case that fall into the category "private business and its executives". If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the respondent is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

Opinion:
UNITED STATES v. C. I. T. CORPORATION.
No. 94.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Dec. 13, 1937.
Jos. G. Myerson, of New York City (Joseph G. Myerson and Jeremiah C. Lazar, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.
Leo J. Hickey, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Vine H. Smith and JvWolfe Chassen, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for the United States.
Before MANTON, L. HAND, and SWAN, Circuit Judges.
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree denying the claim of the intervener, C. I. T. Corporation, to remit the forfeiture of its interest in a motor car, as assignee of the conditional seller. The facts are as follows. A libel of information was filed against the car on December 10, 1936, alleging that it was found upon premises where liquor was being manufactured with intent to defraud the United States of taxes (section 1184, Title 26 U.S.Code, 26 U.S.C.A. § 1184), and where there was a distilling apparatus, not registered as required by law (section 1162, title 26 U.S.Code, 26 U.S.C.A. § 1162). The car was seized, and on January 11, 1937 the “C I. T. Corporation” filed a claim to it and an answer. The libellant moved for a decree of forfeiture, and the claimant, by cross motion, for a remission as to its interest; the appeal is taken from the decree granting the libellant’s motion and denying that of the claimant. The claimant’s answer consented to the forfeiture except as to its own interest, but as to that alleged that on July 21, 1926, the same day when the car was sold to the purchasers, Louis Goldberg and A. Margolis, the conditional seller, a reputable dealer in Brooklyn, assigned its interest to the claimant, which received it in the regular course of its business. Before the contract was executed the claimant investigated the purchasers through “reputable credit investigation agents,” learned nothing giving it reason to'believe that the car was to be used in violation of law, and bought the contract in good faith. The libellant moved for decree on the the.ory that the answer had conceded that the car should be forfeited; but that motion was plainly bad. The claimant’s cross-motion was supported by an affidavit which the libellant answered, and the court apparently treated the cause as though it was then ripe for decree. That was of course erroneous unless both parties consented to try it on affidavits; but since they •have both done so, and the affidavits do not materially conflict in point of fact, we will disregard the irregularity and decide the case as though it had come up upon final hearing as it should have.
The claimant’s affidavit declared that its investigating agents learned that Goldberg was employed as a plumber, had a bank account, was married, had two children, and had been a satisfactory tenant; that Margolis had owned a house for ten years, had a good reputation, was thought to be a man of considerable means, had a bank account and was the president of a mineral water company which had a good rating. To. this the libellant’s affidavit replied that an investigator of the federal “Alcohol Tax Unit” had interviewed Margolis, who told him that he signed the contract only because his daughter was married to Gold-, berg’s younger brother; that Goldberg was not regularly employed; that almost a year before the purchase he was being investigated by the “Unit” as to the operation of a still on the premises where the car was later seized; that the claimant had made no inquiry at the “Unit”; and that if it had, it would have learned the facts alleged. There is no other evidence that either Goldberg or Margolis had the “reputation” of having violated the liquor laws, nor was the proof of any “record” to that effect. The judge thought that the claimant had not made out its case for remission under section 40a(b) of title 27 U.S.Code (27 U.S.C.A. § 40a (b), denied its motion, and granted the libellant’s.
Section 40a (a) gives the district court jurisdiction to “remit or mitigate the forfeiture” ; section 40a (b) conditions this power upon the claimant’s proving (1) that he has acquired an interest in the car in good faith, (2) that he had no knowledge or reason to believe that it would be used to violate the liquor laws, and (3) in case the claimant’s interest arises out of a contract made with a person “having a record or reputation for violating laws of the United States or of any State relating to liquor” that the claimant must inquire of certain specified local or federal authorities as to such a possible “record” or “reputation,” and be informed that he has neither.
It is clear that the claimant has the burden of proof as to the first two conditions; he must show that he acquired his interest in good faith and that he had' no reason to believe that the car would be used in violating the law. The claimant undoubtedly fulfilled these unless we are to question the truth of its affidavit; we do not understand that the libellant means to raise that question. The third condition is itself subject to a condition, for the duty of inquiry is not imposed upon the seller unless the buyer has in fact “a record or reputation” as a violator of the liquor laws. We do not decide whether the claimant has the burden of disproving this condition, for the libellant concedes that it has not; that has, indeed, been twice held in district courts. United States v. One 1936 Model Lafayette Coupé Automobile, 14 F.Supp. 1003, 1005; United States v. One 1935 Chevrolet Coupé, 13 F.Supp. 986. So much granted, the case falls, for the libellant made no effort to show that either Goldberg or Margolis had in fact any “record” or a “reputation” as a violator of the liquor laws. The notion seems to be that because the officials had been investigating Goldberg for a year, that gave him a reputation as a violator of the liquor laws. That is an error. The statute is drawn so as to impose upon the seller the duty of inquiry only when there exists something which is likely to reach his ears, a public record or a general reputation. No doubt he always takes the chance in any sale that there may be one or both of these; but his duty does not arise if there is not. Even then he will escape if the officials do not confirm it upon inquiry. Here there was no record; the libellant does not allege that the pending investigation was such. Nor was there any reputation. Some of the officials — how many we do not know — had for long suspected Goldberg of breaking the liquor law, but that did not give him the reputation of doing so. Such inquiries are kept secret lest they come to the knowledge of the suspect and he become wary. The statute means not that, but reputation in the usual sense, a prevalent or common belief, a general name, the opinion of a number of persons, a more or less extended and public attribution of the crime, likely to be spread about so as to reach the seller. The knowledge of those charged with the duty of prosecuting Goldberg was not likely to do so.
The libellant answers that even so, remission lay in the court’s discretion under section 40a (a) and that the discretion exercised in the case at bar was final. United States v. One 1935 Dodge Rack-Body Truck, 88 F.2d 613, 615 (C.C.A.2). But though the power be discretionary, the discretion must be governed by the evidence ; it may not be baseless. In the case at bar there were no suspicious circumstances to lead the claimant to refuse to accept the contract; we are not to say that no car can ever be sold without inquiry at the local “Alcohol Tax Unit.”
Decree reversed, forfeiture remitted.

Question: What is the total number of respondents in the case that fall into the category "private business and its executives"? Answer with a number.

Choices:

Answer: 1