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IN RE RAMBA, INC.

No. 04-20752.

437 F.3d 457 (2006)

In The Matter Of: RAMBA, INC., Debtor. Lowell T. Cage, Appellant, v. Wyo-Ben, Inc.; Georesources, Inc.; Trans-Capital, Inc.; M-I, LLC, doing business as Federal Wholesale Drilling Mud; Schlumberger Technology Corp., doing business as Dowell Schlumberger; Amchem, Inc.; Enterprise Fleet Services; Danos & Curole Marine Contractors, Inc.; Milwhite, Inc.; Excalibar Minerals, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 23, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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 Geore-sources, 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.

Before REAVLEY, GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a trustee's attempt to avoid transfers to creditors in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The district court granted summary judgment to the Appellees, holding that indirect transfers to ten creditors did not constitute voidable preferences. It reached this conclusion after holding that the transfers were in the ordinary course of business and that the transfers were made from property in which the debtor had no interest. We AFFIRM...

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