The Second District Court of Appeal on Friday ordered a healthcare worker to arbitrate her employment claims, marking what attorneys believe is the first time a California appellate court has cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s Viking River Cruises opinion to compel arbitration.

The Los Angeles-based appellate panel said Jean Hensley’s individual claims for worker misclassification against nursing jobs platform Medely must go to arbitration. The three justices also stayed the plaintiff’s multi-employee Private Attorney General Act, or PAGA, suit pending the outcome of arbitration.

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