On-Line Financial Services, Inc. v. Department of Human Rights

PRESIDING JUSTICE HARTMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants, Bernella Kindzred (Kindzred), the Illinois Department of Human Rights and Joyce E. Tucker (Department), appeal the denial of their motion to dismiss plaintiff On-Line Financial Services, Inc.’s (On-Line’s) declaratory judgment action and the grant of summary judgment in On-Line’s favor. They argue that On-Line’s complaint should have been dismissed based upon the doctrines of ripeness, primary jurisdiction, and failure to exhaust administrative remedies, and the circuit court erred in finding that the relevant statute was…