{"id":10702,"date":"2026-05-16T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/fuerza-regida-blasts-label-rancho-humilde-in-lawsuit-over-record-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:35:05","slug":"fuerza-regida-blasts-label-rancho-humilde-in-lawsuit-over-record-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/fuerza-regida-blasts-label-rancho-humilde-in-lawsuit-over-record-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuerza Regida Blasts Label Rancho Humilde in Lawsuit Over Record Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tThe bitter legal battle between Fuerza Regida and its label Rancho Humilde is heating up, with the band now accusing the company of holding them in \u201cunlawful captivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new court filing Thursday (May 14), attorneys for the fast-rising regional Mexican group are urging a judge to let them continue accusing Rancho of violating California\u2019s so-called seven-year rule, which prohibits exclusive services deals like record contracts that run any longer than that.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFuerza says Rancho is holding them in \u201cunlawful personal services captivity\u201d and is \u201cweaponizing\u201d that illegal control to block the group from playing at major events, including this spring\u2019s MLB World Baseball Classic and the upcoming FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe weapon Rancho has been using to block [Fuerza]\u2019s appearances at seminal events \u2026 has destroyed irreplaceable opportunities one by one while this litigation proceeds,\u201d the group\u2019s attorney, Kenneth D. Freundlich<\/strong>, writes in the filing, obtained and first reported by Billboard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRancho Humilde, a popular indie label founded by Jimmy Humilde<\/strong> known for fueling the recent boom in corridos tumbados, has been sparring in court for months with Fuerza, one of its top acts. The band\u2019s 111XPANTIA<\/em> debuted last spring at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the highest ever for a Spanish-language album by a duo or group.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a September lawsuit, the label accused the band of breaching its record deal by unilaterally doing features for other artists and inking live performance contracts with Apple Music and Live Nation. It claimed the group would owe more than $15 million in damages when the case was over.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFuerza Regida then countersued a month later, alleging the indie label had withheld millions of dollars in royalties and tried to \u201csabotage\u201d its success \u2014 including by leaving it off Latin Grammy Awards submissions. It has since argued that the alleged retaliation has continued with blocked opportunities for the World Cup and the soundtrack for the popular Grand Theft Auto<\/em> video games.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Rancho asked the judge to dismiss much of Fuerza\u2019s case, including its accusations over the seven-year rule (formally California Labor Code Section 2855). Though the band first signed its record deal in 2018, the label argued Fuerza had willingly signed new deals in 2021 and 2022 that had clearly restarted the clock.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCalifornia courts do not mechanically aggregate successive contracts for purposes of Labor Code Section 2855 and California law does not treat successive written contracts \u2026 as a \u2018single unified transaction\u2019 simply because their terms, added together, exceed seven years,\u201d the label\u2019s lawyers wrote in their April motion.<\/p>\n

\n\tRancho argued that the later deals gave Fuerza both a $1.8 million settlement payment and a $300,000 signing bonus, making each one a \u201cdiscrete, superseding contract\u201d that had reset the seven-year limit.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in Thursday\u2019s response, Fuerza\u2019s attorneys say Section 2855 is \u201crooted in California\u2019s constitutional prohibition on involuntary servitude\u201d and cannot be evaded merely by foisting additional contracts on artists that are \u201cstacked infinitely.\u201d And they say the band didn\u2019t really want to sign those new contracts anyway.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[The band] signed them because it had no choice,\u201d the band\u2019s attorneys write. \u201cThe old contract was in force. FRC could not negotiate with anyone else. FRC could not test its market value. FRC was not free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe case remains in its earliest stages, as both sides try to dismiss the other\u2019s accusations at the outset. If the judge allows either side\u2019s case to move ahead, the parties will proceed into discovery and toward an eventual trial. Neither side returned requests for comment on Friday (May 15).<\/p>\n


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