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AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. v. FTC 

Opinion of the Court 

district court in Axon’s case found that the FTC Act’s com-
parable  review  scheme  displaces  §1331  jurisdiction  for 
claims concerning the FTC’s adjudications.  So Axon had to 
raise its structural constitutional claims “during the admin-
istrative process and then renew them” if and when “seek-
ing review in the Court of Appeals.”  App. to Pet. for Cert. 
in No. 21–86, pp. 50–51. 

On appeal from those decisions, the United States Courts 
of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits split.  The Ninth 
Circuit, considering Axon’s case, reached the same conclu-
sion as the district courts.  See 986 F. 3d 1173 (2021).  Re-
viewing this Court’s precedents, the Ninth Circuit acknowl-
edged  that  a  statutory  review  scheme  precluding  district 
court jurisdiction—like the FTC Act’s—might not extend to 
every “type of claim[ ].”  Id., at 1187 (citing Thunder Basin 
Coal Co. v. Reich, 510 U. S. 200, 212 (1994)).  But the court 
decided that Axon’s constitutional challenges fell within the 
FTC Act’s scheme, mainly because the scheme guaranteed 
them  “meaningful  judicial  review.”   986  F. 3d,  at  1181, 
1187.  The en banc Fifth Circuit disagreed as to the equiv-
alent SEC question.  See 20 F. 4th 194 (2021).  The court 
maintained that “Cochran’s removal power claim is not the 
type of claim Congress intended to funnel through the Ex-
change  Act’s  statutory-review  scheme.”  Id.,  at  206–207 
(also citing Thunder Basin, 510 U. S., at 212).  Drawing on 
considerations identified in this Court’s opinions, the Fifth 
Circuit  reasoned  that  Cochran’s  claim  would  not  receive 
“meaningful judicial review” in a court of appeals; that the 
claim  was  “wholly  collateral  to  the  Exchange  Act’s  statu-
tory-review  scheme”;  and  that  the  claim  fell  “outside  the 
SEC’s expertise.”  20 F. 4th, at 207–208. 

We  granted  certiorari  in  both  cases  to  resolve  the  divi-
sion.  595 U. S.  ___ (2022); 596 U. S.  ___ (2022).  We now 
conclude that the review schemes set out in the Exchange 
Act and the FTC Act do not displace district court jurisdic-
tion over Axon’s and Cochran’s far-reaching constitutional