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Judge shuts down Shingle Mountain in southern Dallas until, at least, early April

Scott Deatherage, Blue Star’s attorney, told Slaughter during Thursday’s hearing that shutting down the recycler even temporarily would kill the business. He said a temporary restraining order was merited only if something is “so bad something has to be done, it’s awful.”

This, he said, was not that, because he had been out there on a windy day and saw no black dust swirling in the air, as residents and city inspectors insist.

It appears the judge took the attorney’s observation with a grain of shingle.

The hearing came three months after City Hall and Blue Star first met in court, and the recyclers’ attorneys agreed to a temporary timeout while they got the proper stormwater permits and cleaned up their mess behind Marsha Jackson’s house of 23 years. But aside from a few changes out there –some shingles dug out of a Five Mile Creek tributary, some concrete blocks and hay laid down along the river banks to keep trash from flowing into the water — Shingle Mountain kept growing.

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