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By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times / for the Booster Shots blog
November 7, 2011, 1:52 p.m.
A federal judge has put a temporary block on new graphic warning labels for cigarette packages as a case concerning the constitutionality of requiring the labels proceeds.