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What does administrative judgment against me mean?

Date: Wed, 02/09/2005 - 16:42
Submitted by on Wed, 02/09/2005 - 16:42
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Hi,

I have a $1,450. cumulative debt for parking tickets ($700.00 doubled over time) in Chicago, IL.

Yesterday evening, this man called and did not say the "mini-miranda" schlep - then proceeded to try to good cop/bad cop me into sending $ via western union.


I asked him if it was a collection agency and he said, "Listen Ms. X, you're either gonna make a payment or we will garnish your wages."

When I got his supervisor on the line (after a long wait) she was much softer but did not take my complaint of his treatment seriously.

I want to make a payment, but not to the collection agency (which the a-hole told me I couldn't but the supervisor said I could). If I go down to the city office and make a payment, can the collection agency still file an action against me?

Also, the a-hole mentioned there is an "administrative judgment against me. What does this mean (he would not tell me).

Thanks!!!!

Ruka


Hi Ruka,

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Submitted by Jason on Sun, 03/06/2005 - 23:45

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Submitted by on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 09:27

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Some state legislatures have passed statutes (meaning they have been signed by the respective states' governor) allowing the state or local governments to factor out parking ticket debts to collection agencies.

As to the administrative judgement and garnishing wages, your failure to appear/answer/pay for the complaint in municipal court (not sure what they call it out there) automatically qualifies you for a whole slew of things the state can do. The first thing you do with failing to go to court is qualify you for a default judgement for the tickets.

The next step here, is that these people (and this is just conjecture, because I am unsure about practices in IL), however, they probably have an express line to an administrative law judge who can sign a garnishment order as well as sign a suspension of license order.

You don't go to court, you gotta pay in more way than one. Not going for parking tickets is almost the same as not answering a civil complaint.


Submitted by on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 22:53

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