Different lawyer, different argument as the City of Greensboro goes before another judge as the legal mess that is the White Street landfill continues:

The attorney representing the city said Greensboro had first selected that area for waste sites in the 1980s, so opponents might be going up against a statute of limitations.

It was a change of approach for the city, which earlier had argued that it had not yet selected new waste sites and therefore still had time to complete the state requirements.

By all appearances the city has altered its argument after the blogosphere and the mainstream media saw through its earlier argument.

What interesting is the City Council’s role in this whole affair; as the Rhino’s John Hammer notes, “you would expect the attorneys representing the city – Assistant City Attorney Jim Clark and George House with Brooks Pierce – to go over their strategy with city councilmembers.”

But that’s difficult when you have three council members who openly oppose the landfill —- and who are tight with a former council member leading the opposition. There are also two council members who have to recuse themselves.

Mind you, the city’s case is difficult because they’re being forced to defend something that hasn’t happened yet. How about this —I’m no attorney —— the city reminds the judge that staff recommended against closing the landfill the first time around?