Litigation between two companies on Maui with billionaire owners has spread from contention over water to land, and specifically control of an association representing landowners at Kapalua Resort.

TY Management, the owner of two golf courses at the resort that are shuttered due to a lack of water flowing through a system owned by Maui Land &Pineapple Co., filed a second lawsuit against MLP in September after suing in August over the water shortage that led to the cancellation of a prestigious January PGA Tour Sentry tournament worth $50 million to Maui’s economy.

The new lawsuit contends that MLP “sneakily” acquired supermajority voting power in the nonprofit Kapalua Resort Association by adding nearly 2,000 acres of largely undeveloped land to the West Maui resort area.

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