The Supreme Court has held that a conservation group lacked standing to sue a business that was interfering in an area's aesthetics because the individual club members were not personally affected.

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In the case of Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, the Supreme Court held that the conservation group lacked standing to sue because its members had not demonstrated that they were personally harmed by the pollution caused by the business. The Court stated that "aesthetic and environmental well-being, like economic well-being, are important ingredients of the quality of life in our society, and the fact that particular environmental interests are shared by the many rather than the few does not make them less deserving of legal protection through the judicial process." However, the Court ultimately ruled that the individual members of the conservation group had not demonstrated that they suffered an injury in fact, and therefore lacked standing to sue.

The Supreme Court Has Held That a Conservation Group Lacked