Many Hawaiians will be disheartened by this ruling and will probably feel like they are once more being "disenfranchised and disregarded" by the courts, but Judge Amano's arguments were logical, concise and follows the laws of the land which governs us all, as citizens of the state of Hawaii.  

While many of the arguments that the protesters relied upon were emotionally and religiously based; when viewed through the lenses of "jurisprudence" their arguments did not rise to meet the level needed for the burden of evidentiary proof to stop the TMT project from moving forward, as no one in particular is placed in harms way, no iwi are disturbed nor is anyone blocked from conducting or exercising their rights to religious practices upon Mauna Kea's slopes, most especially Hawaiians.