Southern Oregon Barter Fair v. Jackson County

OPINION

BYBEE, Circuit Judge:

The Southern Oregon Barter Fair is a nonprofit corporation that held an annual fair in Oregon between 1978 and 1996. The Fair describes its event as a religious gathering, a “harvest celebration and gathering of ... ‘new age,’ ‘back-to-the-land’ hippies and friends,” and a “counterculture crafts fair” where artisans and vendors set up booths for people to buy crafts. In *1131order to hold several previous events, most recently the 1996 event, the Fair had to obtain a permit from Jackson County, Oregon, under the Oregon Mass Gathering Act, OR. Rev. Stat. §§ 433.735-.770,…