The administrative law judge overseeing the Adirondack Park Agency’s upcoming adjudicatory hearing for a proposed howitzer testing range in the town of Lewis ruled on Friday that the applicant’s attorney and law firm will be allowed to remain on the case. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the decision denied a challenge from Adirondack Council, an environmental conservation advocacy group — a party to the hearing — which is opposed to the proposed howitzer range. Adirondack Council asked that attorney Matthew Norfolk, who represents project sponsor Michael Hopmeier, through his company, Unconventional Concepts, Inc., be removed from the hearing process.