PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Maine courts are ready to hear the latest arguments about the state’s failure to enact voter-approved Medicaid expansion.

Hearings are scheduled for next week on Thursday and Friday in Portland at Cumberland County Courthouse.

Last fall, nearly three out of five Mainers voted to expand Medicaid to 70,000 to 80,000 adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.

But the ballot measure didn’t say how Maine would pay for its share of expansion. The Republican governor has stymied expansion since and a legal battle has ensued.

Maine’s top court recently upheld a court order requiring Gov. Paul LePage’s administration to file paperwork needed to start rolling out Medicaid expansion.

The state did so but the governor urged federal regulators to reject it.