The following excerpt is from Bethel Native v. Dept. of the Interior, 208 F.3d 1171 (9th Cir. 1998):
Id.; see also United States v. California, 655 F.2d 914, 918 (9th Cir. 1980) ("The federal government . . . may sue a state in federal court under any valid cause of action, state or federal, even if the state attempts to limit the cause of action to suits in state courts only.")
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