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:
WESTERN INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEWCOR CANADA LIMITED, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 83-1657.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted May 24, 1983.
Decided June 13, 1983.
Stephen T. Jacobs and Jeffrey P. Clark, Reinhart, Boemer, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant-appellant.
John S. Skilton and David A. Baker, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellee.
Before BAUER, WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
This motion to dismiss the defendant’s appeal raises the recurrent — one might almost say incessant — problem of distinguishing between motions under Rules 59(e) and 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. See A.D. Weiss Lithograph Co. v. Illinois Adhesive Products Co., 705 F.2d 249 (7th Cir.1983) (per curiam).
The district court entered a final judgment on April 4, 1983, awarding the plaintiff damages on its claim and the defendant a smaller sum as damages on its counterclaim. The defendant filed a notice of appeal to this court on April 8. On April 13 the plaintiff moved the district court, pursuant to Rule 59(e), for an order amending its judgment to provide that the award to the defendant on the counterclaim “be set off and satisfied by a portion of the recovery of” the plaintiff on its claim. The plaintiff asks us to dismiss the defendant’s appeal on the ground that the filing of the Rule 59(e) motion divested us of jurisdiction of the appeal. The defendant concedes the general principle, on which see, e.g., Inryco, Inc. v. Metropolitan Engineering Co., 708 F.2d 1225, 1232 (7th Cir.1983), but argues that the plaintiff’s Rule 59(e) motion is really a Rule 60(b) motion, and therefore that the motion to dismiss the appeal should be denied, since the filing of a Rule 60(b) motion does not affect the appeal.
Post-judgment motions filed within 10 days should where possible be construed as Rule 59(e) motions to avoid otherwise endless hassles over proper characterization. The possibilities of abusive use of post-judgment motions to delay appeal are slight since 10 days is a short time and cannot be extended, see Rule 6(b). Of course there are some limitations on construing a post-judgment motion as a Rule 59(e) motion; in particular, a motion for an extension of time in which to file a motion to alter or amend the judgment may not be construed as a Rule 59(e) motion, see A.D. Weiss, supra, 705 F.2d at 250, lest Rule 6(b) be circumvented; but that is not a problem here.
The plaintiff wanted the district judge to provide in the judgment for a set-off. This was a request to alter the judgment and was therefore a proper request to make in a Rule 59(e) motion. The only peculiarity of this case is that the Rule 59(e) motion was filed after the defendant had filed its notice of appeal. The defendant argues vigorously that the motion was filed purely to delay the appeal. However, if a party that wants to appeal a district court judgment files his notice of appeal within 10 days of entry of judgment, as the defendant did here, he runs the risk that our jurisdiction over his appeal will be divested by the other party’s filing a Rule 59(e) motion, as he is entitled to do, within the same 10-day period. The immediate filing of a notice of appeal cannot be allowed to defeat the appellee’s rights under Rule 59(e). It is unusual for the appellee— the winner below — to be filing a Rule 59(e) motion, but by no means unheard of. A prevailing plaintiff may, for example, want the judge to increase the amount of the judgment, as happened in Western Transport Co. v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 682 F.2d 1233 (7th Cir.1982). Or both parties may as in this case be winners and losers in the district court. We therefore caution parties that do not want .to run the risk of having their appeals dismissed as premature to wait 10 days before filing the notice of appeal.
The appeal is
Dismissed.

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: 1