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:
AMERICAN CAN CO. v. BRUCE’S JUICES, Inc.
No. 13037.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
June 14, 1951.
Gerhard A. Gesell, Washington, D. C., John M. Allison, Tampa, Fla., and Wm. M. Aiken, Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Cody Fowler and R. W. Shackleford, Tampa, Fla., for appellee:
Before McCORD, BORAH and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.
McCORD, Circuit Judge.
From a careful consideration of the petition for rehearing filed by appellant in this cause, we conclude that the opinion heretofore filed warrants explanation. The Court held: “It was shown that in granting quantity discounts the defendant did not adhere to the various brackets of its quantity discount schedule. To the contrary, it began to divide and classify all of its customers into three groups designated as ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’. * * *” [187 F.2d 919, 921.] (Italics ours.)
Even though the record evidence does sustain the contention that defendant adhered in some sort to its quantity discount schedule, we adhere to our former holding that such schedule was nevertheless discriminatory for the reason that the discounts granted were based almost entirely on the annual volume of purchases, and were legally unjustified as having practically no relation to the actual cost of selling customers, or reasonable classes of customers. In this connection, our former 'opinion speaks exactly and succinctly in this wise: “Thus, for all practical purposes, the above grouping of defendant’s customers was based almost entirely on the annual volume of their respective purchases, and was in no wise governed by the actual cost of selling customers.”
.Appellant further complains of the statement in the opinion to the effect that plaintiff’s competitors, Engelman Gardens of Texas and Morgan Packing Company of Indiana, “had received from the defendant special discounts on the price of a particular type Iscan which had been denied to plaintiff." (Italics ours.) In the above quoted language, the court had reference to that testimony concerning the alleged “secret low price” on the 3.12 Iscan which was offered to plaintiff’s competitor, En-gelman Gardens, in the Fall of 1939, and later made available to Morgan Packing Company in June, 1940. We adhere to our former holding that this lower price, or its equivalent, was actually and in effect “denied to plaintiff” for the reason that defendant failed, to adhere to its established freight pricing policy with respect to the 3.12 Iscan shipments desired by plaintiff by refusing to quote a price on such shipments which would include the freight to plaintiff’s Tampa plant, and that, under the circumstances such action was unlawful and discriminatory.
Appellant fastens upon the statement in our opinion that “the unlawful discrimina-tions of the defendant * * * had the effect of restricting its (plaintiff’s) can quota [for the duration of the war]” as a basis for the contention that this Court arbitrarily awarded damages for that entire period. Neither the trial court nor this Court has ever condoned such an award; and such contention is wholly without substance or merit. No damages were included in the award for the period subsequent to December 9th, 1942, as it is without dispute that Order M-81 did not adversely affect plaintiff’s sales after that date.
That portion of the opinion wherein it is held that none “of defendant’s customers except plaintiff were ever required to pay freight on a shipment of the 3.12 Iscan” is explained by insertion of the phrase “unusual and discriminatory” before the word “freight”, making the challenged quotation read: “It was not shown that any of defendant’s customers except plaintiff were ever required to pay [unusual and discriminatory] freight on a shipment of the 3.12 Iscan.” (Italics ours.)
Upon further consideration of the motion for the assessment of additional attorneys’ fees we conclude that counsel for appellee are entitled to an additional allowance in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) for their services upon this appeal.
With the opinion thus modified, the petition for rehearing is hereby
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: 1