Dive summary:

• The Fenimore Landfill in Roxbury, N.J., has been ordered to close after a hearing that the defense attorney was not informed of. 
• The Department of Environmental Protection has been trying to close the landfill in past years because of noise and smell complaints but the standing judge has always sided in favor of the landfill.
• Citizens upset with the landfill filled their own cease and desist order with a different judge who sided with the residents, because the landfill attorney wasn't informed of the hearing he says he plans to fight he ruling.

From the article:

Fredericks said he was not informed of Monday’s hearing until after it was over.

Marchese “waited until 3:30 in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve to go into court to get this done,” Fredericks said, calling Maenza’s ruling “fatally flawed.”

Marchese acknowledged that Bernardi has not yet been formally served with the judge's order, so he may continue operating the landfill for 10 more days before the order would require him to shut down.

Stoltz, the neighbor co-filing the suit, said Wilson, a chancery judge, had been “ineffective” in reducing the problems, so the neighbors decided to file “our own complaint” as a regular civil matter in the law division. ...