German law would lock out batterers
BONN, Germany (AP) - Germany's government wants to give women a legal right
to kick out husbands who beat them, an official was quoted Wednesday as
saying. Planned legislation would let magistrates order aggressive husbands
to pack their bags and keep away from the couple's home, initially for a
week, the Bild daily reported. A court could extend the period with
restraining orders. "A lockout would help many women," Bild quoted Family
Minister Christine Bergmann as saying. Earlier this month, the Greens party
said it would seek a law obliging men to do a share of married couples'
housework and giving wives who don't work a legal claim to part of their
husband's coalition. See full story
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Court blocks another EPA smog rule
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the EPA to
suspend implementation of a rule requiring 22 states to take measures that
control interstate movement of smog-causing pollution. The court decision,
pending consideration of a lawsuit challenging the rule, is the second blow
against a major EPA air pollution regulation in two weeks. The same appeals
court turned back the EPA's smog and soot regulation on May 14. The action
by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia directs the EPA to stop implementing the regulation, pending
consideration of a lawsuit that had challenged the requirements. See full
story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559692635-791>
