Puss N Boots, Inc. v. Mayor's License Commission of City of Chicago

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON DENIAL OF REHEARING

PRESIDING JUSTICE EGAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

In the petition for rehearing the city argues that we should hold that the failure to comply with the time requirements of the ordinance is not jurisdictional. In support of that argument the city maintains that our holding will have a crippling effect on its ability to properly enforce licensing laws. The city has conjured up several examples of ordinance violators being possibly excused from appropriate sanctions.

We have two brief answers to the city’s arguments. In Johnkol, Inc. v. License…