Cohabiting No Longer Illegal in N.C.: Ruling Affirms Ban is Unconstitutional
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 14--Legal experts said Wednesday that unmarried couples who live together cannot be prosecuted in North Carolina under a 201-year-old state law. They cited a Superior Court judge's injunction released this week.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The law that state lawmakers passed last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged hooked up to a feeding tube despite her husband's orders to remove it is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday...
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - New Jersey lawmakers approved same-sex civil unions on Thursday, giving gay and lesbian couples the same rights as married partners without allowing such relationships to be called "marriage."
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a 30-year-old Washington, D.C., law that bans handguns in homes, a precedent-setting ruling that dealt a setback to a city with one of America's highest crime rates.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday invalidated parts of Maine's law barring Internet tobacco sales to minors.
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In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.
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By Lindell Kay, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Jun. 7--Onslow County has three fewer adult-oriented businesses after a decision issued by a judge Wednesday.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Lawmakers in the U.S. state of New Jersey legalized same-sex civil unions on Thursday to give gay and lesbian couples the same rights as marriage but would not allow such partnerships to be called "marriage".
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An Arkansas judge Wednesday declared unconstitutional a state ban on placing foster children in any household with a gay member.
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NEW ORLEANS, La.  - Louisiana voters on Saturday  overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution  banning gay marriages and civil unions.
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A federal judge Thursday ruled against the government's ban on so-called partial birth abortions, saying the measure signed into law last year by President Bush was unconstitutional.
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A Las Vegas law prohibiting strippers from fondling customers during lap dances is unconstitutionally vague, a judge ruled.
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A federal judge ruled yesterday that a portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional, the first time one of the anti-terrorism law&#39;s police surveillance provisions has been struck down.
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The fight for gay marriage appeared to be gaining ground a year ago. Although dozens of states had passed laws defining marriage as a heterosexual institution, advocates took heart in state-sanctioned civil unions in Vermont, expanded domestic partnership benefits in California, and a Supreme Court decision striking down the Texas sodomy ban.
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By Meiling Arounnarath, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 14--CARRBORO -- The Board of Aldermen got rid of a requirement this week that even the chairman of the town Planning Board said was unreasonable.
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The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled the government&#39;s plan to relocate the administrative capital as unconstitutional. Eight of the court&#39;s nine judges ruled the plan as unconstitutional.
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Gay couples should be allowed to marry  because the state's constitution guarantees equality for all, a  New York judge said on Friday in a ruling that could eventually  clear the way for same-sex unions in New York.