The following excerpt is from Mathis v. Pacific Gas and Elec. Co., 891 F.2d 1429 (9th Cir. 1989):
3 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. Kitchens v. Bowen, 825 F.2d 1337, 1340 (9th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 934, 108 S.Ct. 1109, 99 L.Ed.2d 270 (1988).
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