the Seventh Circuit has yet to address the issue, a number of other mages provisions are penal, the County Defendants analogize the statute to the civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organiza (7th Cir.1952) (“[T]he real question facing us, therefore, was not whether the action was one to recover a statutory penalty within the meaning of any federal statute but whether actions such as this are limited to a period of two years under the Illinois statutes---- We are not concerned at all, then, with anything other than the question of what statute of limitations of Illinois is applicable to actions to recover treble damages.”). The Seventh Circuit has never held that treble damages are, by definition, punitive. See, e.g., Adler v. Northern Hotel Co., 175 F.2d 619 (7th Cir.1949) (<HOLDING>). The reach of Tellis’ holding is further
holding that treble damages awarded under the civil theft statute are remedial not punitive holding that treble damages under the housing and rent act are remedial in nature holding treble damages under the civil theft statute are punitive holding that plaintiff could recover both treble damages under state racketeering statute and punitive damages under fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims because the statute provided that actions brought under it are remedial and not punitive and that civil remedies provided under it are supplemental and not mutually exclusive holding that the tcpas treble damages provision is remedial