Search FindLaw (https://lp. ndlaw.com/) Cases & Codes (https://caselaw. ndlaw.com/) Practice Management (https://practice. ndlaw.com/) Legal Technology (https FINDLAW (HTTPS://LP.FINDLAW.COM/) / CASELAW (HTTPS://CASELAW.FINDLAW.COM/) / KANSAS (HTTPS://CASELAW.FINDLAW.COM/COURTS/KANSAS) KS CT. APP. (HTTPS://CASELAW.FINDLAW.COM/COURT/KS-COURT-OF-APPEALS) / YEASIN V. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS / YEASIN v. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Print Font size: A A Reset Court of Appeals of Kansas. Navid YEASIN, Appellee, v. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Appellant. No. 113,098. Decided: September 25, 2015 Before GREEN, P.J., HILL, J., and TIMOTHY G. LAHEY, District JUDGE, assigned. Sara L. Trower, associate general counsel and special assistant attorney general, for appellant. Terence E. Leibold, of Pete sh, Immel, Heeb & Hird, LLP, of Lawrence, for appellee. Stephen Douglas Bonney, for amicus curiae ACLU Foundation of Kansas. Don Saxton, for amici curiae Student Press Law Center and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Maureen A. Redeker and Peter J. Paukstelis, for amicus curiae Kansas State University. During the summer break of 2013, Navid Yeasin engaged in reprehensible, demeaning, and criminal behavior with W., who is also a University of Kansas student. In addition, Yeasin posted a series of puerile and sexually harassing tweets on his account. None of this conduct occurred on campus or at a University sponsored or supervised event. The Student Code, the rules by which the University can impose discipline upon its students, deals only with conduct on campus or at University sponsored or supervised events. We therefore hold that the University had no authority to expel Yeasin. We a rm the district court's similar ruling and dissolve the stay order issued in this case. The dating relationship of two students deteriorates. Yeasin and W. met during the fall semester of 2012 when both students were enrolled in the same geology class at the University of Kansas. They dated off and on from November 2012 through May 2013. Their relationship was turbulent. In late June 2013, Yeasin drove W. to see her therapist. While she was at her therapy session, Yeasin stayed in the car and read text and Facebook messages on W.'s phone. When W. returned, Yeasin angrily confronted W. about some messages she had sent to another man. The argument continued as they drove around Olathe. W. told Yeasin she did not want to spend the day with him and to take her back to her car. Yeasin became angry again but agreed. Once at W.'s car, Yeasin took W.'s phone, locked the car doors, and then drove away with W. Yeasin told W. that he was going to make her pay for what she had done. W. repeatedly asked Yeasin to let her out of the car, and he refused. Yeasin also refused to return W .'s phone and physically prevented her from taking her phone back. When W. told Yeasin that she was scared and to take her home, Yeasin responded, “ ‘[N]o, not until you pay the consequences for what you've done and make sure you'll never do this again.’ “ Sometime between p.m.latest and 6 p.m., Yeasin took W. back to the parking lot where her car was parked. W. left when a Stay up to date with5the on the law! friend picked her up in the parking lot around 10 p.m. Yeasin called W. around 1 a .m. threatening her, and at one point told her he “would make it so that [W.] wouldn't be welcome at any of the universities in Kansas.” Subscribe Please enter your email address W. reportedthisthis confrontation to the police. The State charged Yeasinndlaw-terms-of-service.html). with criminal restraint, By submitting form, you agree to FindLaw.com's terms (https://www. ndlaw.com/company/ We battery, and criminal deprivation of respect your privacy (https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/privacy-statement.html). property. Yeasin subsequently entered into a diversion agreement with the State on the criminal charges in August 2013. In a companion case, Johnson County District Court issued a nal order of and protection from abuse directing Yeasin to have no This site is protected by the reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) Terms of Service (https://policies.google.com/terms) apply. contact with W. for 1 year. / ×