The law was the brainchild of the Social Democrats (SPD), who made it a condition of joining Merkel's coalition in 2013.
"The last time McDonald's did something like this, five other fast-food companies made similar announcements within six months," said Steven Roach, food safety program director for Food Animal Concerns, one of the advocacy groups involved in the coalition Keep Antibiotics Working.
Voucher backers--an unusual coalition of inner-city parents and conservative groups--retort that the judge misread both the Cleveland program and the First Amendment.
The nation was led by coalition cabinets, headed first by Herbert Asquith and then, starting in 1916, by the Welsh statesman David Lloyd George.
It is leading another coalition to build an open-operating system called Android that will work in the next generation of cell phones as well as other consumer devices.
NATO-led coalition troops are on standby to assist but on Saturday said the Afghan government had not asked for help.
