Originally published by David Coale.
Rogers, a collection agency, wrote Salinas, stating the amount due ($4629.96)
and the interest and fees due ($0.00). The letter also said: “In the event there is interest or other charges accruing on your account, the amount due may be greater than the 
The Fifth Circuit held that, while its precedent had not squarely addressed “conditional” language such as “in the event,” Rogers’s letter was not deceptive. “Salinas reads it to imply the possibility that interest or other charges may accrue when in fact they cannot,” noted the Court, but “[a]n illustration shows the problem with Salinas’ reading of the letter”:
Suppose a traveler boards a flight from El Paso, TX, to Tucson, AZ—a route traversing only desert—and is shown a safety video describing steps to take “in the event of a water landing.” Even the least sophisticated traveler would not take the video to imply the plane would be flying over water. No passenger would leap out of his seat in panic, concluding he had boarded the wrong flight. Even a traveler “tied to the very last rung on the intelligence or sophistication ladder” would interpret the video as merely acknowledging the reality that some flights, if not this one, fly over water.
Salinas v. R.A. Rogers Inc., No. 19-50618 (March 12, 2020).
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