As a Long Island school district tries to recoup the salary and benefits it paid to a teacher convicted of sex abuse, a judge is ordering the parties into arbitration.

In the wake of tenured elementary music teacher John Benstock’s 2013 guilty plea, Locust Valley Central School District sought the return of his total compensation—roughly $1 million dollars over 13 years—owing to his purported breaches of fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty to the district by committing the crimes.