LVNV Funding, LLC v. Trice

Illinois Supreme Court
Civil Court
Collections
Citation
Case Number: 
2015 IL 116129
Decision Date: 
Friday, February 27, 2015
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co.
Holding: 
Circuit court vacated; remanded with directions.
Justice: 
KARMEIER
Court's judgment is not void on grounds that Plaintiff collection agency was not registered as a debt collection agency at time of filing of collections complaint. Even if legislature may make failure to obtain debt collection license a criminal offense, the failure to obtain such license at time of filing complaint does not negate circuit court's subject matter jurisdiction.(GARMAN, FREEMAN, THOMAS, BURKE, and THEIS, concurring; KILBRIDE, dissenting.)