Scottsdale residents file lawsuit against proposed Axon headquarters

• A citizen group has filed a challenge to a law allowing Axon to build its global headquarters • The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the law • Axon says the lawsuit could jeopardize 5,550 new jobs in the state

A group that opposes a new law that will allow Axon to build apartments at its global headquarters in north Scottsdale will file a lawsuit against the state to challenge the constitutionality of the legislation.

Taxpayers Against Awful Apartment Zoning Exemptions, or TAAAZE, announced that it would file the lawsuit on Sept. 25, a day before the law was set to take effect. The city of Scottsdale was also going to be named in the lawsuit, according to a TAAAZE press release.

TAAAZE opposes the law because the group says it was passed to specifically benefit one comp