October 10, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission will dodge the most direct attack on the constitutionality of its administrative merger challenge process after abandoning its case against an Axon Enterprise Inc. transaction, prompting Axon to drop its preemptive nearly four-year-old lawsuit that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
August 10, 2023
Axon Enterprise Inc. asked an Arizona federal judge Thursday to tee up its constitutional challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's structure and processes, newly revived by the U.S. Supreme Court, saying there's been no development on efforts to otherwise resolve the preemptive attack on an FTC merger challenge.
May 30, 2023
An Arizona federal court is setting the groundwork to tackle head-on a challenge to the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission's structure and processes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that such claims can be litigated without first going through administrative appeals.
April 09, 2020
An Arizona federal court tossed a suit from police body camera and nonlethal weapon maker Axon Enterprise Inc. that challenged the Federal Trade Commission's structure and merger review process as unconstitutional.
April 01, 2020
Police body camera maker Axon Enterprises sparred with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday during a hearing held over the phone before an Arizona federal judge over whether the court can hear Axon's constitutional challenge of the agency's structure and merger review process.
March 30, 2020
The New Civil Liberties Alliance has thrown its weight behind a constitutional challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's in-house enforcement process, backing body camera maker Axon's battle in Arizona federal court over an ongoing administrative merger review.
March 12, 2020
An Arizona federal judge has said that he's likely to toss Axon Enterprise Inc.'s constitutional challenge of the Federal Trade Commission's structure and merger challenge process, finding that lawmakers established district court review of FTC actions only after they've made their way through the agency.
March 10, 2020
Axon Enterprise Inc. has urged an Arizona federal judge not to give the Federal Trade Commission a reprieve on responding to the company's constitutional challenge to the agency, accusing the FTC of hypocritically trying to slow down the district court case while speeding up its own in-house proceeding against Axon's merger.
March 05, 2020
The Arizona federal judge overseeing Axon Enterprise Inc.'s constitutional challenge of the Federal Trade Commission's process and structure has called for a hearing to discuss whether the court has jurisdiction over the claims.
February 28, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission has refused to hit the brakes on an in-house challenge to Axon's completed purchase of a body camera supplier, holding the company has little chance of making it out of the starting gate with a federal court attack on the agency's constitutionality.