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Sean Knowles focuses his practice on securities litigation, corporate governance matters and white collar investigations and defense.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in two related cases, Axon Enterprise Inc. v. FTC (No. 21-86) and SEC v. Cochran (No. 21-1239), that federal district courts have jurisdiction to hear structural constitutional challenges to the adjudicative authority of the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

As a consequence, in such challenges, respondents