United States Fifth Circuit

Summary judgment for creditors in a bankruptcy case involving a trustee's efforts to avoid certain transfers to creditors is vacated in part where the district court erred in finding that a certain direct transfer was in the ordinary course of business.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/16/2006
• Published 02/20/2006

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy L. Wentworth (argued), Cage, Hill & Niehaus, Houston, TX, for Cage., Tanya N. Garrison, Edward Louis Rothberg (argued), Hugh Massey Ray, III, Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, Houston, TX, for Wyo-Ben, Inc., Ben L. Aderholt (argued), Looper Reed & McGraw, Houston, TX, for Georesources, Inc., M-I, LLC and Amchem, Inc., Patrick Douglas Devine, Ware, Jackson, Lee & Chambers, Houston, TX, for Trans-Capital, Inc. and Schlumberger Technology Corp., George A. Kurisky, Jr., Susan LeGrand Read, Johnson, Finkel, DeLuca & Kennedy, Houston, TX, for Enterprise Fleet Services., Sessions Ault Hootsell, III, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, Kathleen Hopkins Alsina, Phelps Dunbar, Houston, TX, for Danos & Curole Marine Contractors, Inc., J. Douglas Sutter, Kelly, Sutter, Mount & Kendrick, Houston, TX, for Milwhite, Inc. and Excalibar Minerals, Inc.