Opinion ID: 339025
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Heading: The Rendering of Mutual Benefits

Text: 20 The rendering of mutual benefits between a private creditor and the state will support a finding that a symbiotic relationship exists between the private actor and the state properly characterized as state action. See Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority, 365 U.S. 715, 81 S.Ct. 856, 6 L.Ed.2d 45 (1961). In the instant case, however, there is no such relationship. Here, the state was not a joint participant, as it was in Burton, in the extra-judicial sale proposed by Kennedy, and no mutual services were rendered. 21 The situation here is more akin to the one dealt with in Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis, 407 U.S. 163, 92 S.Ct. 1965, 32 L.Ed.2d 627 (1972), where no symbiotic relationship was found to exist. In Moose Lodge the state granted the fraternal organization a liquor license. The state also regulated its licensees. It was found that the regulation of licensees did not foster or encourage the activity of the Moose Lodge challenged by the petitioner. Id. at 173, 95 S.Ct. 1965. So it is here. California's regulation of the lien enforcement remedy provided warehousemen through notice requirements and certain procedural limitations does not foster or encourage the challenged activity. 22