Amy Imburgia filed a class action lawsuit in 2008 against DIRECTV in Los Angeles County Superior Court after the company charged her a series of termination fees. The DIRECTV Customer Agreement stated that it was governed by the FAA and included two clauses: 1) any legal claim would be resolved "only by binding arbitration" and 2) a class arbitration waiver. The class arbitration waiver notably included a non-severability clause, which stated that the entire section of the agreement discussing arbitration would be invalidated if the class arbitration waiver was unenforceable in the "law of your state." This meant that, as a practical matter, DIRECTV intended to arbitrate only if the customers agreed not to join together to form a class arbitration.