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:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. TACOMA GRAVEL AND SUPPLY CO., Inc., et al., Appellees.
No. 20218.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Jan. 25, 1967.
Rehearing Denied April 3, 1967.
John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alan S. Rosenthal, Atty., Florence Wag-man Roisman, Atty., Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., William N. Goodwin, U. S. Atty., Dale L. Carlisle, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tacoma, Wash., for appellant.
James E. O’Hern, Warren J. Dahiem, of Blair, Thomas, Nicks, O’Hern & Hokan-son, Tacoma, Wash., for appellees.
Before BARNES, KOELSCH and BROWNING, Circuit Judges.
KOELSCH, Circuit Judge.
In 1953 the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, predecessor to the Small Business Administration, an agency of plaintiff United States of America, obtained a deficiency judgment against respondents in a superior court of the State of Washington. Ten years later, the United States brought this action in a federal district court to renew the Washington judgment. On cross-motions the district court rendered summary judgment for respondents. This appeal followed.
Jurisdiction below was based on 28 U.S.C. § 1345. This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
. The district court rested decision on the ground that the United States, having voluntarily put itself into the state forum in order to have the benefit of a state judgment, was on no better footing than any other litigant availing itself of the state judicial processes. Accordingly, the United States was denied relief because under R.C.W. 4.56.210 a Washington state judgment is not renewable more than six years after it has been entered.
R.C.W. 4.56.210 provides:
“After the expiration of six years from the date of the entry of any judgment heretofore or hereafter rendered in this state, it shall cease to be a lien or charge against the estate or person of the judgment debtor, and no suit, action or other proceeding shall ever be had on any judgment rendered in this state by which the lien or duration of such judgment, claim or demand, shall be extended or continued in force for any greater or longer period than six years from the date of the entry of the original judgment, except as in R.C.W. 4.56.225 provided.”
Appellant argues that this is a statute of limitations and “[i]t is well settled that the United States is not bound by state statutes of limitation or subject to the defense of laches in enforcing its rights.” United States v. Summerlin, 310 U.S. 414, 416, 60 S.Ct. 1019, 1020, 84 L.Ed. 1283 (1940); United States v. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co., 118 U.S. 120,125, 6 S.Ct. 1006, 30 L.Ed. 81 (1886).
However, in interpreting this statute the decisions of the Washington State Supreme Court are controlling. In re Levinson, 5 F.2d 75 (D.C.Wash.1925). That court has consistently held that this is a statute not of limitations but of extinguishment; after six years a Washington judgment has no further force or effect — it ceases to exist. Bettman v. Cowley, 19 Wash. 207, 53 P. 53, 40 L.R. A. 815 (1898); Palmer v. Laberee, 23 Wash. 409, 63 P. 216 (1900); Ball v. Bussell, 119 Wash. 206, 205 P. 423 (1922); Roche v. McDonald, 136 Wash. 322, 239 P. 1015, 44 A.L.R. 444 (1925), rev’d on other grounds, 275 U.S. 449, 48 S.Ct. 142, 72 L.Ed. 365 (1928); St. Ger-main v. St. Germain, 22 Wash.2d 744, 157 P.2d 981 (1945).
“This statute * * * is not a mere statute of limitation * * Roche v. McDonald, supra, 136 Wash, at 326, 239 P. at 1016. “It goes directly to the obligation [of the judgment] itself, and destroys it.” Palmer v. Labe-ree, supra, at 415, 63 P. at 218. Consequently, the “judgment becomes inoperative for any purpose after the expiration” of six years. Hinckley v. Seattle, 37 Wash. 269, 270, 79 P. 779 (1905).
We are convinced that this statute operates against the United States equally with private creditors. In Custer v. McCutcheon, 283 U.S. 514, 51 S.Ct. 530, 75 L.Ed. 1239 (1913), the Court had under consideration a state statute •fixing a five year limit on the time within which execution must issue on a judgment. The rationale implicit in the •Court’s opinion is: execution is a state granted right; a state can control by condition what it grants; the time element is a valid condition inherent in the right of execution; the right terminates upon expiration of the time so limited; this consequence attaches even though the judgment is in favor of the United States.
The Court was careful to note that “[t]he time limited for issuing executions is, strictly speaking, not a statute of limitations.” 283 U.S. at 519, 51 S.Ct. at 532. Rather the lapse of more than five years from the date of entry of the judgment served to extinguish the government’s right to execution altogether.
So here the United States, having elected to pursue this claim in a court of the State of Washington, could obtain no more than what that state provides in the way of a judgment. R.C.W. 4.56.210 is as much a part of a Washington judgment as if fully incorporated therein. In re Levinson, 5 F.2d 75 (1925). Thus, since ten years have elapsed, appellant’s judgment is not merely dormant, it is dead. Appellant has no judgment left to renew.
We note in passing that this case is readily distinguishable from United States v. Summerlin, 310 U.S. 414, 60 S. Ct. 1019, 84 L.Ed. 1283 (1940), where the Supreme Court ruled that no state can invalidate a claim of the United States. Here we are concerned only with a judgment of the State of Washington. We do not decide whether R.C.W. 4.56.210 also operates to cut off the claim underlying that judgment.
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.

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Answer: 0