Star-Glo Associates, L.P. v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding that bankruptcy trustee “who sought (and, indeed, properly alleged in his complaint) compensatory damages” (emphasis added
• holding that bankruptcy trustee “who sought (and, indeed, properly alleged in his complaint) compensatory damages” (emphasis added) did not waive this claim by alleging, in response to the defendants’ request for jury trial, that he was entitled to equitable restitution instead
• considering the purpose of a statute to determine the meaning of an ambiguous term in the statutory text
• restitutionary monetary relief was not “equitable” under section § 502(a)(3) where defendants never possessed the funds in question