  We investigate the use of Popa's asymptotic orthogonality to establish
maximal amenability for amalgamated free product von Neumann algebras. Although
new techniques have recently been developed to consider amalgamated free
products, we find that the technique developed by Popa in the 1980s can be used
to demonstrate maximal amenability for a certain family of amalgamated free
product von Neumann algebras.
