Court Opinion

ID: 9465590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:50:30.204671+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:15.497489
License: Public Domain

SNEED, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I concur in Judge Kelleher’s opinion. With respect to the content of the letters (Paragraph 3) I wish to add these comments. To refer to the possibility of litigation, when at the time such possibility exists, is not, I believe, a deceptive practice. To suggest that it is, except when the chance of litigation is slightly better than even, is to circumscribe truth unreasonably rather than to extirpate falsehood. I am not convinced that Congress so intended to censor truth in legislation designed to protect the consumer from falsehood. To bar from the eyes of consumers certain truths because of their supposed intimidatory potential underestimates the consumers’ fortitude and demeans their intelligence.