"Crafted by powerful Maui legislators, the law allows the company three more years of holdover status for pre-existing water permits as long as it is “consistent with the public trust doctrine.” A&B said it hopes the land board will find the permits “to be consistent” with the doctrine and grant them the extension."

Who were the public legislators representing? 

It pays for corporations to have powerful friends who can circumvent and strike out the court ruling that favored the public interest.