NU Online News Service, June 25, 2:36 p.m. EDT

A judge in the Southern District of Mississippi has given State Farm and two sisters accusing it of defrauding the U.S government more than nine months to prepare for a trial after six years of litigious backbiting. 

The latest entry of about 950 in the case's docket report since whistleblowers Cori and Kerri Rigsby filed a well-publicized False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit against State Farm in April 2006 sets a trial date of March 25, 2013.

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