Legal Opinion
Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. v. Cage (In Re Ramba, Inc.)
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 7, 2005No. 04-20807PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
In this bankruptcy case, the trustee of debtor Ramba, Inc. seeks to avoid a transfer of $85,654.85 made by Ramba to the appellee, Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. The trustee contends that the transfer was a preferential payment of a pre-existing debt, and thus avoidable under 11 U.S.C. § 547(b). Baker Hughes responds that, inter alia, the transfer was not a preferential payment, but instead a contemporaneous exchange for new value. The bankruptcy court granted summary judgment for the trustee and avoided the transfer. The district court, however, reversed…
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