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:
PROPAK CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent.
No. 76-2292.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Argued June 6, 1978.
Decided June 30, 1978.
Robert L. Larson, Keith Ashmus, Thompson, Hiñe & Flory, Cleveland, Ohio, for petitioner.
Elliott Moore, Norman Moscowitz, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, N.L.R.B., Marion Griffin, Washington, D. C., William E. Caldwell, Acting Regional Director, Region 10, N.L.R.B., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.
Before CELEBREZZE, LIVELY and KEITH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Propak Corporation has petitioned for review of an order of the National Labor Relations Board and the Board has filed a cross-application for enforcement. The order is reported at 225 NLRB No. 160 (1976).
The Board found that Propak violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, by coercively interrogating employees concerning union activities and the Board’s investigation of complaints against the company. Upon consideration of the entire record the court concludes that these § 8(a)(1) findings are supported by substantial evidence.
The Board also found that Propak violated Section 8(a)(3) and (1) of the Act by discharging the employee Ganues for his union activities. Ganues was employed in July 1972 and performed well, receiving several raises and promotions. He had a “nervous breakdown” in August 1974 and was required to take sick leave. After returning to work, Ganues had difficulty performing jobs to which he was assigned. This necessitated his removal from several jobs and transfers to others. His discharge took place on the Monday following an event the preceding Thursday where an operation assigned to Ganues was left unattended, resulting in a costly spillage of materials.
The administrative law judge found that during the last several months of Ganues’ employment Propak “might well have had adequate grounds to discharge Ganues for cause on at least two or three different occasions.” He concluded, however, that the actual motivation for the discharge was union activity by Ganues. The administrative law judge based this conclusion on his finding that union activity which Ganues engaged in over the week-end following the “spill” became known to the company on the morning of the discharge. This finding was based upon several inferences, but there was no direct evidence that the company officials who made the determination to discharge Ganues prior to 8:45 on Monday morning had in fact been informed of his most recent union activities. These officers testified that they did not know of this activity and that the discharge resulted from a period of unsatisfactory performance by Ganues, culminating in the serious incident of the previous Thursday.
Upon consideration of the entire record we conclude that there is not substantial evidence to support a finding that Ganues was discharged because of his union activities. The Board’s General Counsel had the burden of proving that the discharge was impelled by a discriminatory or anti-union motive. N.L.R.B. v. Howell Automatic Machine Co., 454 F.2d 1077, 1080 (6th Cir. 1972). The evidence and the inferences properly drawn from it do not demonstrate that the company had knowledge of the latest union activities of Ganues prior to discharging him. See N.L.R.B. v. Armitage Sand & Gravel, Inc., 495 F.2d 759 (6th Cir. 1974). On the other hand, company officials had known of his earlier union activities and had made no effort to interfere. The record does not support a finding that the actual impelling motive for the discharge of Ganues was to punish him for his union activities of the previous week-end. N.L.R.B. v. Stemun Mfg. Co., 423 F.2d 737, 741 (6th Cir. 1970).
Enforcement is denied with respect to the Section 8(a)(3) violation, paragraphs 2.(a) and (b) of the order. Enforcement is granted as to the Section 8(a)(1) violations, paragraphs 1. and 2.(c) of the order. No costs allowed.

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