Hi and welcome to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, February 25th.

I'm Andrew Wiseman.

I'm here with my co-host, Barry McCord.

Hi, Mary.

Good morning, Andrew.

So, Mary, I know it was a hard week to scrounge around for topics.

There's so little going on that I know we sort of like were scraping the bottom of the barrel

to figure out what to talk about.

And that is clearly a joke because it continues to be the case that what we're trying to do for our listeners is try and select

things that we find sort of most important, particularly on the legal front, and things that

either are important in and of themselves or are emblematic of issues that we're going to see

over and over again, because it's just impossible

to cover everything. You know, you can see the volume of just the litigations that are going on,

and that's leaving aside all of the policy issues. Yeah. And, you know, almost every one of those

cases in its own regard would be worthy of a

whole segment, if not a whole episode. So it's really tough to decide which ones to focus on and we're

going to do our best. But for today, we do want to sort of pick up where we left off last week as our

lead off topic, because last last week we told listeners that

the very next day there would be a hearing in the Southern District of New York, in the matter

of Eric Adams, and the motion to dismiss that case. And of course, that hearing did occur and other

things have occurred since then, including the appointment of an attorney to argue the position

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