A River Birch landfill rival is asking U.S. District Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown to recuse herself in a lawsuit alleging racketeering violations from River Birch and its owner, Fred Heebe.

U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown, not pictured, is recusing herself in a second lawsuit involving River Birch landfill owners iJim Ward, left, and Fred Heebe.

River birch is a tough and adaptable native tree that is also a popular landscape plant throughout the south. ... orange, brown, red, or black, as well as covered in white wooly fluff.