State Can't Ban Living Together, Judge RulesPOSTED: 1:51 pm EDT July 20, 2006 RALEIGH, N.C. -- A judge says North Carolina's 201-year-old law barring unmarried couples from living together is unconstitutional. The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit challenging the law on behalf of former Pender County sheriff's dispatcher Deborah Hobbs. Hobbs lived with her boyfriend and quit her job in 2004 after Sheriff Carson Smith demanded she marry her boyfriend or move out if she wanted to work for him. State Superior Court Judge Benjamin Alford issued the ruling Wednesday, citing a 2003 U.S....
