March 26, 2004

Judge Says University in Oklahoma Wrongly Expelled Student in Hacking Case

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

A state judge in Oklahoma ruled this month that Rogers State University wrongfully expelled a student whom officials had accused of computer hacking.

Now the former student, Joshua M. Fellman, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over the incident, alleging religious discrimination and false arrest and imprisonment by university officials.

Mr. Fellman, 21, was kicked off the Claremore, Okla., campus at the end of his sophomore year in August 2002 over accusations that he had

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