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:
SARKES v. WELLS.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth. Circuit.
January 17, 1930.
No. 5272.
J. B. Dworken, of Cleveland, Ohio, for appellant.
Monroe A. Loeser, of Cleveland, Ohio (E. C. Landsman, of Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellee.
Before DENISON, MOORMAN, and HICKS, Circuit Judges.
HICKS, Circuit Judge.
Appeal by George Sarkes, bankrupt, from an order of the District Court adjudging him in contempt for failure to obey an order, made by the referee, directing the bankrupt to deliver to the appellee trustee the sum of $3,000 and a diamond ring. The turnover order, wherein it was found that the bankrupt at the time of bankruptcy had the money and ring in his possession and under his control, was regularly made on April 12, 1928, upon the petition of the trustee and after a full hearing. Appellant having failed to comply, the referee certified the facts found to the judge, who, after a full hearing, at whieh were admitted the findings of the referee and the evidence introduced upon the part of the appellant, including his own testimony, was of opinion that the appellant had the present ability to comply with the order, and therefore, on September 11, 1928, ordered that, if he did not comply within ten days, he should for his contempt be held in custody until he did, or until further orders. ■
The judge was right. The bankrupt filed no petition to review the turnover order (General Order XXVII), and it was therefore an adjudication which may not be collaterally attacked that at the time it was made the appellee had possession of and was withholding the property. There can no longer be any difference of judicial opinion upon the point. Oriel v. Russell, 278 U. S. 358, 363, 49 S. Ct. 173, 73 L. Ed. 419; Internat. Agr. Corp. v. Cary, 240 F. 101, 106 (C. C. A. 6); In re L. & R. Wister & Co., 237 F. 793, 795 (C. C. A. 3); Toplitz v. Walser, 27 F.(2d) 196, 197 (C. C. A. 3); In re David, 33 F.(2d) 748, 749 (C. C. A. 3); Coates v. Dresner, 34 F.(2d) 264, 265 (C. C. A. 3); In re Siegler, 31 F.(2d) 972, 973 (C. C. A. 2); Clark v. Milens, 28 F.(2d) 457, 458 (C. C. A. 9).
The only defense open to the bankrupt Hiere upon the contempt proceeding was that something had occurred since the order which rendered him unable to obey it. Oriel v. Russell, supra. He made no such defense. He contented himself with denying that he had had possession or control of the property either before or after the turnover order and asserting that it was therefore impossible for him to turn over that which he had never possessed. This insistence was not relevant to the issue in the contempt proceeding. It was an indirect attempt to annul the turnover order, whieh may not be collaterally attacked, and whieh within itself constituted a prima facie case against the bankrupt in the contempt proceeding. Berkhower v. Mielzner, 29 F.(2d) 65, 66 (C. C. A. 6); Shulman v. United States, 18 F.(2d) 579, 580 (C. C. A. 6). Upon its presentation, the burden shifted to appellant to show by persuasive evidence that he was no longer in possession of the property and the circumstances under which he was deprived of its control. Oriel v. Russell, supra; Regus v. Morrison, 30 F.(2d) 685 (C. C. A. 5); Clark v. Milens, supra; In re Siegler, supra; Toplitz v. Walser, supra; Coates v. Dresner, supra.
Appellant having failed therein, there was no error in the judgment of the lower court, and it is 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: 99