{"id":213794,"date":"2025-09-09T21:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213794\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:11:14","slug":"scottsdale-considers-lawsuit-against-arizona-over-controversial-axon-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213794\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottsdale considers lawsuit against Arizona over controversial Axon bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Scottsdale is considering legal action against the state of Arizona regarding the &#8220;Axon bill&#8221; that was passed by lawmakers this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Scottsdale City Council has scheduled a special meeting Sept. 9, when it plans to vote on a resolution that would authorize the filing of a lawsuit against the state &#8220;to challenge the legality and constitutionality of Senate Bill 1543,&#8221; according to an amended agenda for the city&#8217;s Sept. 9 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 1543 was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/news\/2025\/04\/15\/axon-bill-passes-senate.html__;!!FJkDyvWmnr4!YDzoIVnbdWXMcBI0B_9vHn6anNNmR1KsBqUhNNIZ5YmnZLZbP4ynWV7nAHsP8c5tZjfBQUrBb9OpkuUPSzlW9w$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed by Gov. Katie Hobbs<\/a> on April 18, paving the way for Axon Enterprise Inc. to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/news\/2024\/11\/19\/axon-headquarters-approved-scottsdale.html__;!!FJkDyvWmnr4!YDzoIVnbdWXMcBI0B_9vHn6anNNmR1KsBqUhNNIZ5YmnZLZbP4ynWV7nAHsP8c5tZjfBQUrBb9OpkuXgvtK1pw$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">build its long-planned $1.3 billion Scottsdale headquarters campus<\/a>. It is set to become law on Sept. 26, according to city of Scottsdale documents.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/news\/2025\/09\/08\/scottsdale-council-considers-axon-lawsuit.html?utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medum=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=knxv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more of this story from the Business Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757189113_20_liveplayerbanner1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Scottsdale is considering legal action against the state of Arizona regarding the &#8220;Axon bill&#8221; that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-213794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115176400851514431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}