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 In CAMP, a group seeking to hold outdoor festivals in Atlanta challenged the City’s permitting ordinance on First Amendment grounds. CAMP, 451 F.3d at 1264. In determining whether the plaintiffs had standing, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the group “ ‘must show that [it] has sustained or is immediately in danger of sustaining a direct injury as the result of’ each provision” in the challenged permitting ordinance. Id. at 1274 (quoting Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 13 (1972)). For example, the Eleventh Circuit held that the group had standing to challenge the ordinance’s provision that they apply for a permit ninety days before the proposed event because the group demonstrated its activities were arguably affected by this provision. Specifically, the group submitted evidence that it had “difficulty recruiting performers based on its inability to predict whether it would receive a festival permit 90 days in advance.” Id. at 1276.

The group did not have standing, however, to challenge the ordinance’s provision that permit applicants must not have failed to pay fees or execute a cleanup plan for prior events because the group “presented no evidence … that these provisions apply to the permits it seeks.” Id. In sum, even though the challenged statute’s provisions fell under an umbrella of permit requirements, the group still had to demonstrate an injury for each way the statute could be violated. In other words, they could challenge only those provisions that their activities arguably implicated. Thus, CAMP teaches that, to satisfy the required provision-by-provision standing