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:
LEWIS et al. v. LILLISTON.
No. 6741.
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Argued Jan. 7, 1937.
Decided March 8, 1937.
Christopher B. Garnett, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.
Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and VAN ORSDEL, GRONER, and STEPHENS, Associate Justices.
PER CURIAM.
Accomack Banking Company, Inc., is a Virginia corporation conducting a general banking business in Accomac county. In December, 1931, it became insolvent and Metompkin Bank & Trust Company was appointed receiver by the circuit court of Accomac county, since which time the latter company has been engaged in winding up the affairs of the bank. Appellee was assistant cashier of the bank, and this suit was brought against him by creditors, alleging that he had on the day the bank closed unlawfully withdrawn $2,450 from his deposit account. Subsequently appel--lee moved to Washington and is now a resident of the District of Columbia, and this suit was instituted by appellants, suing for themselves and all other creditors similarly situated. The bill alleges that plaintiffs repeatedly called upon the receiver to bring the suit, but the receiver refused to do so. The District Judge, who heard the case below, sustained a motion to dismiss on the ground that the receiver of the closed bank (under Virginia Code, § 4149 (52) succeeded as assignee to the rights of the bank; that the receiver is under the control of the Virginia court; and that appellants have no standing to sue, without the approval or authorization of the Virginia court. We think this holding correct in result.
In Virginia the State Corporation Commission is given authority over Virginia banks generally similar to the authority of the Comptroller of the Currency with relation to national banks, except that in Virginia, if the Commission shall be of opinion that a receiver should be appointed, it is authorized to apply for such an appointment to the circuit court of the county or city in which the bank is located. When the court has acted and appointed the receiver, the receiver is made by statute the assignee of the assets and the property of the bank “with power to prosecute and defend, in the name of the bank or trust company or in’ his name as such receiver or otherwise, in Virginia or elsewhere, all such suits as may be necessary” for the purpose of collecting the assets of the bank. The administration of the estate, through the receiver as the officer of the court, is for the benefit of those whom the court shall ultimately adjudge to be entitled to it. In the circumstances— as was said in Porter v. Sabin, 149 U.S. 473, 479, 13 S.Ct. 1008, 37 L.Ed. 815 — the court may in its discretion direct the receiver to sue on any claims of the bank or may direct him to adjust them and settle them without suit. The method and time of asserting such rights of action are subjects within the exclusive jurisdiction of the court so long as the receivership exists. In this view, the allegation of a refusal by the receiver to bring the suit is not sufficient. Appellants cannot maintain such a suit without showing that they have applied to the court for an order requiring the receiver to bring the suit or, in the alternative, permitting them to bring it in its stead. If upon application the court directs the receiver to sue, the rights of creditors are, of course, fully protected. If the court refuses to require the receiver to sue but grants to creditors permission to do so, they may — certainly in this jurisdiction — maintain such a suit as appellants have instituted. There are cases in other federal courts holding or implying the contrary (cf. Kelly v. Dolan [C.C.A.] 233 F. 635), but we are not disposed to follow them. If, however, the court refuses to direct suit by the receiver and also refuses permission to creditors to sue, the courts of this jurisdiction cannot, of course, undertake to maintain such a suit as appellants have brought. Porter v. Sabin, supra. All that we hold is that, until an order to show cause such as we have indicated above has been applied for and decided by the court having custody of the estate, creditors, seeking to protect rights which the Virginia law vests in the receiver alone, cannot be said to have exhausted all the means within their reach to induce by appropriate action the bringing of the suit by the statutory receiver. The lack in this case of an allegation showing the facts in this regard not only leaves the courts of this jurisdiction without basis for determining whether or not appellants have exhausted the remedies reasonably available to them, but also renders the courts unable to know whether or not by entertaining the present suit they are improperly interfering with -the Virginia court in its orderly administration of the insolvent estate.
We think, however, that under the circumstances the court below should permit appellants to amend their bill by showing that they have made application to the Virginia court; and we therefore reverse the decree, at appellants’ cost, with instructions to the lower court to set aside its dismissal of the bill and to permit appellants to show whatever facts may then exist which, in the view we have expressed, will give the court below jurisdiction to proceed to adjudicate the claim.
Reversed.

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