Opinion ID: 339025
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Heading: State Regulation of the Private Conduct

Text: 18 Many private activities suffer a modicum of state regulation. The fact that the conduct of a business is subject to state regulation will not convert its otherwise private activity into state action under the fourteenth amendment unless the state has become entangled in the activity. Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 419 U.S. 345, 350, 95 S.Ct. 449, 42 L.Ed.2d 447 (1974); see also Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis, 407 U.S. 163, 176-177, 92 S.Ct. 1965, 32 L.Ed.2d 627 (1972). State regulation is not a basis for finding the state to be significantly involved in the conduct where the creditor has not requested help from the state and where there has been no direct action or review by state officials. Adams v. Southern California First National Bank,supra, at 329. 8 19 Sales pursuant to California Commercial Code § 7210 do not require any direct action or review on the part of the state or any state official. And Kennedy has not sought the aid of the state to enforce the warehouseman's lien. The statute requires only that notice be given and that certain procedural limitations be observed. The major concern of § 7210 is that the sale, whether private or public, be conducted in a commercially reasonable manner. Thus, the state has not so entwined itself in the lien enforcement remedy through its regulation of the private activity as to convert it into state action.