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:
FRIEZE et al. v. WEST AMERICAN INS. CO.
No. 14236.
United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.
July 26, 1951.
William H. Burden, A. L. Shortridge, and William O. Russell, all of Joplin, Mo., for appellant.
Karl W. Blanchard and Seiler, Blanchard & Van Fleet, all of Joplin, Mo.; for ap-pellee.
Before COLLET and STONE, Circuit Judges, and DELEHANT, District Judge.
PER CURIAM.
Heretofore, appellee has filed a petition for rehearing which was denied. It now offers for filing a second petition for rehearing. This last petition presents one of the matters included in its first petition and urges it with particular emphasis. We conclude that this Second Petition for Rehearing should be allowed filed in order that it may be passed upon by this Court. Thus, the appellee will have its record complete for presentation of its petition for certiorari.
This second petition should be denied. Our opinion, reversing and remanding is based upon the conclusion that the right of appellee to cancel the policy did not exist because appellee had not delivered to the insured a copy of the policy containing the provisions covering cancellation — such being required by section 383.5 of the California Insurance Code. This section of the Insurance Code was not brought to the attention of the trial court. Its first appearance in this case is in the main brief of appellants upon this appeal. Ap-pellee urges that we cannot reverse the case solely upon this ground which was not brought to the attention of the trial court.
The rules as to when and why the Supreme Court or a Court of Appeals will give consideration to an issue not raised below have been stated by Mr. Justice Black in Hormel v. Helvering, Commissioner, 312 U.S. 552, 556-559, 61 S.Ct. 719, 85 L.Ed. 1037. Also, see clear statement by Judge Riddick, of this Court, in United States v. Harrell, 8 Cir., 133 F.2d 504, 506-507, and see Bergeron v. Mansour, 1 Cir., 152 F.2d 27, 32. Compare Sulzbacher v. Continental Casualty Co., this Court, 8 Cir., 88 F.2d 122, 124. Some others, of numerous cases, are Bartholomew v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, this Court, 186 F.2d 315, 319; New York, N. H. & H. R. Co. v. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 2 Cir., 180 F.2d 241, 243-244; United States v. Brooks, 4 Cir., 176 F.2d 482, 483; and Yorkshire Ins. Co. v. United States, 3 Cir., 171 F.2d 374, 376.
These rules may be summarized as follows. Consideration of such new issues is entirely discretionary. It is an exception to the general rule and is to be sparingly done. Such new issues will not be considered if the purpose and result would be reversal of the case unless public policy or the prevention of a plain miscarriage of justice requires. Where such new issues are considered by the appellate •court, the case will be remanded for decision, by the trial court, of any uncertain or disputed facts related to such issues. Where the new issues involve undisputed facts, fhe appellate court may reverse and remand with directions to the trial court to proceed in accord with the decision of the appellate court.
There is not and cannot be any dispute as to the fact situation affected by section 383.5 here. Appellants have discussed fully, in their main and reply briefs, this section. Appellee has done likewise in its brief on the merits and in its earlier .and present petitions for rehearing. No possible purpose could be served by remanding the case for consideration of this point by the trial court.
The foregoing citations and situation establish clearly the power and right of this court to consider and determine this issue as to the effect of section 383.5. This second petition is ordered filed and is
Denied.

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