Severability and Related Issues Sample Clauses

Severability and Related Issues. The Arbitrator, and not any federal, state or local court or agency, shall have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability or formation of this Agreement including, but not limited to any claim that all or any part of this Agreement is void or voidable, except any determination as to the enforceability of the class/collective action waiver shall be made solely by a court. If the prohibition against class/collective actions is deemed unlawful, then such action shall proceed forward in court as a collective or class action. If an arbitrator finds any other provision of this Agreement unenforceable, a court or arbitrator shall interpret or modify this Agreement, to the extent necessary, for it to be enforceable, subject to the sentence above. This Agreement shall be self-amending; meaning if by law or common law a provision is deemed unlawful or unenforceable that provision and the Agreement automatically, immediately and retroactively shall be amended, modified, and/or altered to be enforceable. The arbitrator shall have no power under this Agreement to consolidate claims and/or to hear a collective or class action.
Severability and Related Issues. If any provision or portion of a provision is found to be invalid, void, or unenforceable, the provision or portion of the provision shall be interpreted in a manner or modified to make it enforceable. If that is not possible, it shall be severed, and the remaining portions of the provisions and other provisions of this Arbitration Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. Neither JAMS (defined below) nor the arbitrator shall have power under this Arbitration Agreement to modify or alter this Arbitration Agreement so as to permit the arbitrator or JAMS to consolidate claims and/or to hear a multi-plaintiff, class, collective, or representative action.