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:
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. LUMBER AND SAWMILL WORKERS, LOCAL UNION NO. 2409, a Voluntary Association and Labor Union et al., Appellees.
No. 14934.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
April 18, 1956.
Weir, Gough & Matson, Taylor B. Weir, Newell Gough, Jr., Enor K. Matson, Helena, Mont., for appellant.
Leif Erickson, Helena, Mont., for appellees.
Before STEPHENS and BONE, Circuit Judges, and GOODMAN, District Judge.
GOODMAN, District Judge.
The District Court, on motion of defendant below (appellee here) dismissed plaintiff’s (appellant’s) cause of action for a permanent .and temporary injunction restraining appellee from picketing on or about appellant’s railroad right-of-way and from delaying or interfering with appellant’s delivery of freight to a Mill, with which appellee was engaged in a labor dispute.
District Judge Murray, in his opinion below, 140 F.Supp. 393, has set out adequate and compelling reasons why the complaint failed to tender sufficient legal grounds for injunctive relief. Upon his opinion, the judgment below should be affirmed.
Appellant has urged us, nevertheless, to reverse upon the broad ground that appellant is entitled to injunctive relief to enable it to comply with its obligations to furnish interstate railway service to all the public, 49 U.S.C.A. § 1(17), including shippers involved in labor disputes. The resolution of such an issue necessarily involves the application of the Norris-La Guardia Act, 29 U.S.C.A. §§ 104-113 and the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 141 et seq.
The District Court felt it unnecessary, as we do, to reach this question. For the facts of this case, as alleged in the complaint, and, deemed true for the purposes of the motion to dismiss, do not present a cause of equitable relief under well recognized legal doctrine. The acts of appellee complained of have been continuing since January 1, 1954. The complaint was not filed until September 14, 1955. So the appellant was allegedly suffering under a burden for twenty months before suit, a burden which, suddenly, after that long period of time blossomed into a claimed need for immediate drastic remedy. Furthermore, it appeared that the extent of the hindrance to appellant was merely that it had to use other than regular employees to deliver the freight — a detriment easily and admittedly compensable in dollars. Indeed the allegations of the complaint affirmatively show that the appellant in fact was not prevented from making any deliveries of freight.
Under these circumstances, to reach and rule upon the broad question tendered by appellant would amount to the issuance of an advisory opinion. This is a “consummation” devoutly to be avoided, for that is the way bad law is made.
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: 1