Case Name: Reuben NIEVES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB; Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-12-08
Citations: 357 F. App'x 843
Docket Number: No. 08-16839
Parties: Reuben NIEVES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB; Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: TROTT, TASHIMA, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 357
Pages: 843–845

Head Matter:
Reuben NIEVES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB; Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 08-16839.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 17, 2009.
Filed Dec. 8, 2009.
Reuben Nieves, Sacramento, CA, pro se.
Robert A. Bailey, Robin C. Campbell, Anglin, Flewelling, Rasmussen Campbell & Trytten LLP, Pasadena, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: TROTT, TASHIMA, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument, see Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2), and therefore denies Nieves’s motion for oral argument.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Reuben Nieves appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim alleging, inter alia, that the defendant banks violated his due process rights by proceeding with a nonjudicial foreclosure sale on his property. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Rivera v. United States, 924 F.2d 948, 950 (9th Cir.1991). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed the action because Nieves failed to allege facts demonstrating that the defendants' conduct constituted government action sufficient to support a claim under section 1983 or Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971). See Am. Mfrs. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Sullivan, 526 U.S. 40, 56, 119 S.Ct. 977, 143 L.Ed.2d 130 (1999) (explaining that extensive regulation does not convert a private company into a state actor liable under section 1983); Apao v. Bank of N.Y., 324 F.3d 1091, 1095 (9th Cir.2003) (concluding that a bank using a non-judicial foreclosure procedure provided by state law was not a government actor under section 1983); Mathis v. Pac. Gas & Elec. Co., 891 F.2d 1429, 1432 n. 3 (9th Cir.1989) ("The standards for determining whether an action is governmental are the same whether the purported nexus is to the state or to the federal government.").
Nieves's remaining contentions are unpersuasive.
Appellees' motions to take judicial notice are granted.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.