TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the case of a suburban Kansas City official who was kicked out of office for allowing a homeless friend to sleep in City Hall.

In Friday’s decision, the judges found that a Johnson County judge and the Court of Appeals had applied the wrong legal standards in their rulings.

Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe’s office filed an ouster motion after Prairie Village Councilman David Morrison took his longtime friend to the employee lounge in 2012, gave him his City Hall passcode and didn’t tell anyone else what he was doing. Morrison apologized at the time.

A Johnson County judge ordered Morrison’s ouster in 2013. But last year, the appeals court said he should be reinstated, prompting an appeal.