GUZMAN v. HACIENDA RECORDS AND RECORDING STUDIO

No. 15-40297.

808 F.3d 1031 (2015)

Jose O. GUZMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HACIENDA RECORDS AND RECORDING STUDIO, INCORPORATED; Hacinda Records, L.P., also known as Hacienda Ranchito and/or Discos Ranchito; Latin American Entertainment, L.L.C.; Richard, also known as Rick G. Garcia; Roland Garcia, SR., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 14, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Wesley Showalter, Esq. (argued), Showalter Law Firm, Richmond, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Roland Garcia, Jr. (argued), Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and CLEMENT and ELROD, Circuit Judges.


Corpus Christi, Texas, is the hub of Tejano music, a genre that particularly thrived from the 1970s through the 1990s. This case requires the court to flash back to that era and scrutinize two Tejano songs that were in the mix at the time: Triste Aventurera ("Triste") and Cartas de Amor ("Cartas...

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