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:
PORTER, Adm’r, Office of Price Administration, v. McCOLLOCH, Judge.
No. 11024.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
March 21, 1946.
Herbert H. Bent, Jacob Chaitkin, and Austin Clapp, Attys., OPA, all of San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.
S. J. Graham, William M. Langley, and John M. Hickson, all of Portland, Or., for respondent.
C. M. Gould and Hill, Morgan & Farrar, all of Los Angeles, Cal., and Reuben G. Lenske, of Portland, Or., for A. G. E. Abendroth.
Before STEPHENS, FIEALY, and BONE, O'rcuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
This proceeding is an outgrowth of our decision in Bowles, Administrator, v. Abendroth, 9 Cir., 151 F.2d 407, in which we reversed an order of the district court denying an application of the Administrator, made pursuant to § 202(c) of the Price Control Act, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 922(c), for the enforcement of a subpena. As appeared on the face of the application and supporting' papers, the subpena had been issued over the signature of James F. Brownlee, Acting Price Administrator of the Office of Price Administration. No question was raised concerning Brownlee’s authority in the premises. We decided that on the showing made it was the duty of the district court to grant the application.
Mandate was issued commanding the taking of further proceedings in the cause by the district court in accordance with our opinion and decree. Thereafter the Administrator, Petitioner here, submitted to Honorable Claude McColloch, judge of the district court, a proposed order responsive to the mandate. The judge, however, on the supposed authority of Cudahy Packing Co. v. Holland, 315 U.S. 357, 62 S.Ct. 651, 86 L.Ed. 895, declined to make any order enforcing compliance with the subpena in view of the fact that it had been issued over the signature of the Acting Price Administrator rather than the Price Administrator, Chester Bowles. Instead an order was entered denying the enforcement application for want of jurisdiction.
The Administrator petitioned this court for a writ of mandamus commanding the district judge to comply with our decree. An order to show cause was issued, and the matter is before us on the petition of the Administrator and the return of the Respondent judge.
The law of the case requires the granting of the writ petitioned for. No new facts were before the district court after mandate went down. The court was not, as it appears to have thought, without jurisdiction to proceed. Questions, if any, concerning the authority of the Acting Price Administrator to issue the subpena were waived by the failure timely to raise them. It is not now open to the Respondent to question the mandate.
Some claim is made that the desired inspection has already been had and that the proceeding is therefore moot. This was not a ground of the trial judge’s decision, and there is no sufficient basis for the suggestion of mootness.
Since the views here expressed will serve to remove the obstacles to enforcement thought by Respondent to exist, we assume that the writ need not formally issue at this time. Instead, the clerk is directed to furnish certified copies of this opinion to the Respondent and to the Clerk of the District Court of Oregon for Respondent’s information and guidance.
The subpena was denominated an “inspection requirement.”

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