In Re Comstock Financial Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “liquidation” is merely one step in the allowance process
• Bankruptcy court has equitable power to avoid the constructive trust because creditors failed to trace their property into commingled assets of the estate
• in certain limited circumstances it makes sense to liquidate bankruptcy claims in non-bankruptcy courts to avoid duplicative litigation, to prevent waste of scant federal judicial resources, or to allow a court of special expertise to resolve a dispute within its purview
• RICO treble damages awarded to private claimants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).