Maryann Spinetti v. Service Corporation International and Service Corporation International of Pennsylvania D/B/A Lafayette Memorial Park

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by an employee from a district court order compelling arbitration of her employment discrimination claims requires us to determine whether the entire arbitration agreement between her and her employer was vitiated when the court voided the agreement’s attorney’s fees and arbitration costs provision for offending federal statutes and ruling case law. After making the excisions, the court ordered the discrimination issues to arbitration. We affirm.

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At tension here are two important expressions of public policy. We must respect the “liberal…