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Arguments in tobacco trial postponed 

Arguments were put off today before the Louisiana Supreme Court over how jurors were selected for a statwide class-action suit seeking to make the tobacco industry pay for quit-smoking programs and medical monitoring for smokers.

A day after terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, the high court's building was open, with state troopers added to the court's usual security force. The justices tentatively re-scheduled the arguments for Thursday.

At issue is an appellate court order that tossed off one juror and one alternate juror in the case, which is expected to take up to a year to try.

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