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:
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BEEHIVE STATE AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE, INC., a corporation, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 76-1850 (C76-61).
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Jan. 24, 1978.
Decided May 1, 1978.
Wendell P. Ables, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendant-appellant.
Robert S. Griswold, Jr., I.C.C., San Francisco, Cal. (Stephen T. Rudman, I.C.C., San Francisco, Cal., Stanley M. Braverman and Robert S. Turkington, I.C.C., Washington, D. C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.
Before SETH, Chief Judge, LEWIS and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.
LEWIS, Circuit Judge.
Beehive State Agricultural Cooperative appeals from a judgment of the district court granting a permanent injunction restraining it from refusing to allow the Interstate Commerce Commission to inspect certain of its books and records. The ICC sought the injunction after attempting at various times since 1973 to inspect Beehive’s records pertaining to its interstate trucking operation. Beehive has consistently refused the inspection, contending the ICC has no authority to inspect these records in the absence of Beehive’s consent. The resolution of this appeal requires consideration of various provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act.
Beehive is an agricultural cooperative as defined in the Agricultural Marketing Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1141j. Such cooperatives are generally exempt from the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act relating to motor carriers. 49 U.S.C. § 303(b)(5). The exemption is by no means complete, however, as evidenced by the various provisos to § 303(b)(5). The proviso relevant to this appeal requires that cooperatives engaging in interstate transportation for nonmembers who are neither farmers nor cooperative associations must notify the ICC of their intent to perform such transportation. The ICC then has authority to inspect the cooperative’s books and records pertaining to that activity. Id. § 320(g). Beehive falls within these provisions as it admittedly engages in interstate transportation for nonmembers who are neither farmers nor cooperatives. There is no dispute then, that the ICC has the authority to inspect Beehive’s books. The issue in this appeal is whether the ICC can force inspection by injunction when Beehive refuses to allow it voluntarily-
The section giving the ICC authority to inspect an agricultural cooperative’s books and records was added by amendment in 1968. Prior to that time the ICC only had authority to inspect the books of “motor carriers”, “lessors”, and “brokers”. Id. § 320(d). This right to inspect could be enforced against motor carriers and brokers by injunction. Id. § 322(b)(1). When Congress added the amendment authorizing the ICC to inspect a cooperative’s books it failed to similarly amend the injunction provision. As the statute now stands, the ICC has authority to inspect but no specific power to force the inspection when it is not voluntarily permitted. The issue is thus one of remedy, not right.
The Ninth Circuit has previously considered the issue presented by this appeal. See ICC v. Big Valley Growers Co-op, 9 Cir., 493 F.2d 888. See also Midwest Growers Co-op Corp. v. Kirkemo, 9 Cir., 533 F.2d 455, 461. The court in Big Valley held that it was within their equitable powers to imply the injunctive relief necessary to enforce the Commission’s authority to inspect. The court suggested that the failure to amend the injunction provision to coincide with the expanded authority to inspect was due to legislative oversight and the implied right to seek injunctive relief was necessary to give effect to Congress’ intent. We are in substantial agreement with this reasoning.
In reviewing the legislative history of the 1968 amendments, it seems clear the main purpose of the amendments was to restrict the agricultural cooperative exemption in the motor carriers section of the Interstate Commerce Act. See H.R. Rep.No. 1667, 90th Cong., 2d Sess., 1968 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News, p. 2766. The principal restriction placed on cooperatives limited their interstate transportation for nonmembers who are neither farmers nor cooperatives to 15% of their total interstate transportation. 49 U.S.C. § 303(b)(5). Little attention was given to the amendment to § 320 giving the ICC authority to inspect the transportation records of cooperatives. The conclusion is inescapable, however, that the authority to inspect was granted as a means of regulating the exemption and enforcing the new limitations on interstate transportation by cooperatives. It seems inconceivable that Congress would grant the authority to accomplish this important aim and then purposely withhold any effective means of enforcing that authority. See ICC v. Big Valley Growers Co-op, supra, at 890-91.
Beehive makes a two-pronged argument as to why the ICC should not have the remedy sought in this case. Beehive first suggests that because the injunction provision does not specifically cover agricultural cooperatives the district court had no jurisdiction to grant such relief. Second, Beehive argues the district court had no power to exercise injunctive relief to correct legislative oversight. We have no quarrel with Beehive’s repeated assertions that federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. The court’s equity jurisdiction is broad, however, and where the exercise of equity is necessary to effectuate congressional purpose, the court is not rigidly confined in its choice of remedies. See Renegotiation Board v. Bannercraft Co., 415 U.S. 1,16-20, 94 S.Ct. 1028, 39 L.Ed.2d 123; Mitchell v. Robert DeMario Jewelry, 361 U.S. 288, 290-92, 80 S.Ct. 332, 4 L.Ed.2d 323. The 1968 amendments would be of little consequence if the ICC could not force an inspection. Congress did not intend to create a sterile right.
The district court had both jurisdiction to entertain the ICC petition and to grant injunctive relief.
Affirmed.
. The district court found this to be the fact f< • purposes of this case only. Our statement is similarly limited.

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