NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state court judge said she’d prefer to hear a civil case over New Orleans’ crime camera program sooner rather than later, after an attorney for Dell Inc. said he was seeking a months-long delay of the scheduled September trial.

But Judge Rosemary Ledet did agree to push back a hearing scheduled for later this month. It was re-set for June.

Southern Electronics Supply Inc. and Active Solutions LLC, which worked on the city’s initial crime camera system, claim their system was misappropriated by people within and with ties to the city’s technology department. They also allege a conspiracy with Dell to sell the system.

Mayor Ray Nagin is listed among the defendants, though a city attorney has disputed the allegations.

Ledet did not rule Friday on Dell’s request to push back the date several months.

Dell attorney Phillip Wittmann said there are still many depositions to take. But plaintiffs’ attorney James Garner said the case was filed more than two years ago, and he said he did not want any possible involvement by federal authorities to get in the way of the case being heard.

Wittmann said later that he didn’t make his first appearance in the case for Dell until January.

The U.S. attorneys’ office has refused to confirm or deny any investigation, though at least one figure in the case, Mark St. Pierre, has said in an affidavit that he had been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury.

St. Pierre has been dismissed as a defendant though companies linked to him are still named.